Brian Merchant: "Tech journalism’s ‘on background’ scourge"
Brian Merchant has written an essay for the latest edition of the
Columbia Journalism Review.
❝ I’ve been a tech journalist for a decade. I was a senior editor at Motherboard for about four years, and have written and edited stories for outlets including Wired, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo. “On background” has been a scourge throughout my career. Every single conversation I have had with a big-five tech company representative this year has been on background. It has become the default method by which Silicon Valley disseminates information to reporters … [CJR.org]
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