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Griscom: Defining effective reporting

What is good journalism?

Perhaps that should be the foundation for any number of discussions in media companies and other locations that now try to adopt the mantle of news gatherers.

At times it seems everyone is an editor, having a better idea of what is the better choice among selected stories and how they should be displayed for the consumer.

There is the list of items that in previous years were included on the printed pages, but either time or a supposed lack of interest pushed staple material into the world of cyberspace.

In shaping the “good journalism” answer, the first assumption is that no single word, phrase or person holds all the keys.