Want to criticism on a story? Take a ask first, says Norwegian broadcaster
A Norwegian tech news site has introduced a novel new comments policy — if we wish to share your thoughts on a story, you contingency initial infer you’ve indeed review it.
“Hopefully, it’ll minister to people creation a bit of time to consider about what they’re going to write before they do it since it’s arrange of a speed strike before we get into a typing,” Stale Grut, a publisher with NRKbeta, a tech offshoot of Norway’s public broadcaster NRK, told As It Happens guest horde Helen Mann.
When a lot of reporters strike “publish” we consider that they see themselves finished with a story.Â
- Stale Grut, NRKbeta
“It also creates certain that everybody is on a same page before they start commenting, so we’re kind of hoping that it will urge some of a comments, that competence have been typed usually by reading a title or tools of a story.”
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​NRKbeta has a dedicated readership who are customarily flattering good about creation courteous comments, Grut says.
But whenever a site publishes a story that gets featured on NKR’s homepage and garners a broader audience, that’s when things tend to turn out of control, with a comments trimming from uninformed to blatant harassment.
In cases like that, it’s tough to hasten a resources to sufficient moderate, generally in a tiny newsroom like NRKbeta’s.
Reporter Stale Grut told As It Happens that NRKbeta is perplexing to approve a peculiarity of a news rendezvous by seeking readers to infer they’ve review a stories they wish to criticism on. (NK Beta)
It’s a problem that news organizations around a universe are struggling to understanding with. In Canada, a Toronto Star disabled comments completely, while a Toronto Sun has private comments from “most” of a online stories.
CBCNews.ca has asked commenters to register with their genuine names and generally cut behind on a series of stories it opens for comment.Â
Fact-based questions
But Grut says branch a comments off altogether doesn’t align with NRKBeta’s values. The site encourages reporters to actively rivet in a comments, looking out for sensitive readers who expand on a coverage.Â
“When a lot of reporters hit ‘publish’ we consider that they see themselves finished with a story. That is kind of how thing’s have always been in this business,” Grut said.
“But we see that you’re usually median by with the article when you’ve published it. So we also wish to urge a essay and plead it with a assembly as well.”
‘Answer a questions next to clear a comments,’ reads NRKbeta’s news quiz, translated to English by Google Chrome. (CBC)
The plea now is reckoning out how to best qualification a quizzes, that a reporters write themselves.
“We try to be as neutral as possible, have some easy questions that are not too tough to answer, though that we can determine on,” he said.
“We kind of wish that at slightest creation certain that people are on a same page before they start commenting will kind of make for some-more courteous discuss around a opposite topics than usually removing indignant since we saw something that repelled we and usually form away.”
For some-more on CBC’s comments policy, see a FAQ.Â