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April 1, 2013 05:18 am GMT
Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated in other other words, he seems to be on pretty good terms with those gatekeepers.Yet Shapiro is launching a new journalism startup called The Big Roundtable. The reason? He said that there are a lot of untested assumptions in the journalism world. As a parallel, he pointed to book publishing, where he said it was long believed that "black people don't buy books." There was, in fact, "this whole sub rosa world" of independent black book stores, with its own bestsellers like Iceberg Slim's Pimp: The Story Of My Life. Yet traditional publishers had no idea that world existed until the mainstream success of writers like Terry McMillan in the 1990s.
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The Big Roundtable Rethinks The Editorial Model For Long-Form Journalism, Hits Its Kickstarter Goal
Michael Shapiro isn't the sort of person I'd expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He's a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he's been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated in other other words, he seems to be on pretty good terms with those gatekeepers.Yet Shapiro is launching a new journalism startup called The Big Roundtable. The reason? He said that there are a lot of untested assumptions in the journalism world. As a parallel, he pointed to book publishing, where he said it was long believed that "black people don't buy books." There was, in fact, "this whole sub rosa world" of independent black book stores, with its own bestsellers like Iceberg Slim's Pimp: The Story Of My Life. Yet traditional publishers had no idea that world existed until the mainstream success of writers like Terry McMillan in the 1990s.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Np-UpeTHW6E/
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