Journo stuff collected on 11/24/2015

• Medium admits pay-per-click isn’t the best way to pay writers, still wrestling with being a platform vs. being a publisher | Gigaom

  “Some critics who prefer the magazine approach will argue that it is better, since it results in higher-quality output, and that the risk with an approach like Medium’s is that it turns into something like Forbes — a site where the quality of the contributed content is so low that it arguably damages the brand.

  For my part, I agree with Williams that while the Medium approach has its flaws, the potential for discovering new voices amid the flotsam and jetsam makes it worth it in the long run. Whether the site will be successful in reinventing how the writers of that content get compensated is a much bigger question, but at least it is trying.

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  tags: medium journalism writers platform publisher

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