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handle Jay Rosen's input one way or another #84

Closed chadwhitacre closed 10 years ago

chadwhitacre commented 10 years ago

From @bronwenc in private email:

RE https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/428347614354890752

Can you explain this to me? Because it is phrased like a directive. Is Jay Rosen involved?

Here's the tweet:

I thought it was well done. But please replace "in terms of where they are..." with "stats for revenue." Thanks.

chadwhitacre commented 10 years ago

@bronwenc Short answer: no. He's not "involved" in any official sense. This is advice and we don't have to take it if we don't want to.

The backstory is that Jay and I ended up on each other's radar when I published Turning Down TechCrunch last year (here's the relevant Twitter thread). When I started looking for writers to help with the OCI (#24), I reached out to him and others to get the word out, and he was generally positive about the effort. I thought it fitting to circle back around with him when we published our first story, and this is his feedback.

I think in general that we want to encourage feedback and a sense of shared ownership with our readers, though if we truly disagree with a change we will say no. In this case I think the change is uncontroversial and we should accept it.

How does that sit with you, @bronwenc?

ityonemo commented 10 years ago

it is good editorial advice though

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Chad Whitacre notifications@github.comwrote:

@bronwenc https://github.com/bronwenc Short answer: no. He's not "involved" in any official sense. This is advice and we don't have to take it if we don't want to.

The backstory is that Jay and I ended up on each other's radar when I published Turning Down TechCrunchhttps://medium.com/building-gittip/5886749a4dedlast year (here's the relevant Twitter thread https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/3318415545473433620). When I started looking for writers to help with the OCI (#24https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/24), I reached out to him and others to get the word out, and he was generally positive https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/416392142752194560about the effort. I thought it fitting to circle back around with him when we published our first story, and this is his feedback.

I think in general that we want to encourage feedback and a sense of shared ownership with our readers, though if we truly disagree with a change we will say no. In this case I think the change is uncontroversial and we should accept it.

How does that sit with you, @bronwenc https://github.com/bronwenc?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/84#issuecomment-33585189 .

steveklabnik commented 10 years ago

Yeah, I like that phrasing too.

bronwenc commented 10 years ago

Never had a problem with his suggestion. Make the change for sure. Better phrasing.

On 30 January 2014 06:39, Steve Klabnik notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, I like that phrasing too.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/84#issuecomment-33621623 .

Bronwen Clune t: @bronwen http://twitter.com/bronwen m: + 61 423 863 843 s: bronwenclune g: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/bronwen-clune

chadwhitacre commented 10 years ago

Done.