“Just last week The Observer broke a story about a Brooklyn con woman, the so-called hipster-grifter, in an article that provided just the kind of New York intrigue and context that had been a hallmark of the newspaper. But Gawker, the Manhattan gossip blog, immediately took custody of the story, annotating it with attitude and reader-submitted sightings of the protagonist that all but obscured where the story came from in the first place.”

—David Carr on Peter Kaplan’s Observer, and just how much the media landscape has changed during his tenure. (via charitini)

True. But the point here is not “oh, no! Blogs are killing newspapers!” The point should be, if the Observer wants to profit from that story, they’re going to have to put in the work to create the kind of community around the story that Gawker already has.

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