Think then link is the message from a really excellent piece by Scott Karpf of Publishing 2.0 on how online journalists should use linking to create context

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2008-2-21Think then Link: how online journalism creates contextblogs.lse.ac.uk /polis/2008/02/21/think-then-link-how-online-journalism-creates-context/Think then link is the message from a really excellent piece by Scott Karpf of Publishing 2.0 on how onlinejournalists should use linking to create context. Jeff Jarvis argues that new media journalists should specialise intheir news niche and link to the rest. But Scott goes further and shows how something as straightforward asreporting a basketball game (as a football fan I still think it’s just netball with street-wear) can be transformed withsimple but comprehensive linking to bloggers. It’s called Networked Journalism folks… (cue latest plug for myforthcoming book SuperMedia: the first book to describe Networked Journalism).Copyright © 2014 London School of Economics and Political Science1/1

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