A Associated Press viu-se posta de lado como agregadora e distribuidora de notícias quando um grupo de jornais do Ohio começaram a partilhar links entre si. Jeff Jarvis escreveu um post que questiona a política de links no jornalismo.

The Associated Press saw itself set aside as news aggregator and distributor when a group of Ohio newspapers began sharing links between them. Jeff Jarvis wrote a post questioning the link policy in journalism.

In the ecosystem of links and the new architecture of news that it spawns, I believe it is vital that we as an industry find ways to point to and give credit to original reporting. That is how original journalism will be supported, in the end: by monetizing the audience that comes to it, whether through advertising or contributions.

This leads to a new Golden Rule of Links in journalism — link unto others’ good stuff as you would have them link unto your good stuff. This emerges from blogging etiquette but is exactly contrary to the old, competitive ways of news organizations: wasting now-precious resources matching competitors’ stories so you could say you’d done it yourself. That must change.

The ethic of the link layer on news, Jeff Jarvis