The arm of the Atlantic Online publication opened his editing room to the public in an experience single-day Wednesday. Readers were invited to plant stories and give feedback on existing articles, as well as to observe the pitch and process - something that usually takes place in client chatroom Campfire - mounting between employees full-time. Instead of fire, The Wire Atlantic moved to an open comments thread.
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"As with many news operations, The Wire Atlantic is mainly edited via terse messages in a group chat room." Publishers and authors spend the day connected to ideas launchers Campfire, exchange of links and everyone is held to date on news of the day. Then we thought: why step to move them in the open air and let anyone who wants to take part? "explains editor Gabriel Snyder, who adds that the experiment was designed to increase transparency in the drafting process.
"I fear all my authors should get Trac and retain, but some of the conversations were [still] funny", he said.
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The team also collected several suggestions history submitted by readers, a series of photographs of a Reuters photographer, whose plan linked to Jakarta was forced to make an emergency landing when one of its engines apparently caught fire and another on current events in Spain.
It is applaudable initiative is not only flattering for readers - many of them, we suspect, know and marks the publication value as carefully as its staff - but also enriches the scope and quality of journalism of the Atlantic wire. We hope that it is a model that will expand beyond the experience of a day.
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