HuffPo founder: Journalism has to get away from ‘if it bleeds it leads’ mentality
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Arianna Huffington has said news outlets need to get away from the “if it bleeds then it leads mentality” and ensure their coverage has the full context around it.
The founder of The Huffington Post laid out the online publication’s plans for the next year at parent company AOL’s Newfront presentation in New York overnight, ahead of the launch of an Australian edition in the coming weeks.
“We need to move away from the idea that the world is absolutely going to hell in hand basket,” Huffington told a room full of US media buyers at the AOL Newfronts at 4 World Trade Centre.
Translation: Run more good news stories to keep advertisers happy and consumers in a better mood to buy things.
Huffington should not be lecturing real journalists when her website is uniformly terrible and consistently of limited news value.
Searching for solutions around the world. I think that’s a brilliant idea. Rather than just complaining let’s see what’s out there that works and what could be done to fix it.
Finally a news outlet that has the courage look beyond everything depressing or in devastating crisis as news content. Enter the recent coverage of #baliexecutions. Congratulations @Arianna Huffington And hallejulah also @Dermott McCormack that we are now starting to call all forms of media just media! Looking forward to seeing the Huff here in Oz.