You're totally right. Steemit does have the capacity to be an independent haven for this type of journalism.
I propose the following:
There should be a tag that only authorised users can use, like #realjournalism.
Users can only gain authorisation to use that tag by showing a body of work elsewhere or submitting an article that is deemed to be high enough quality by an editor.
Why?
- Only by creating such a high quality channel would Steemit gain credibility as a haven for serious journalists.
- A lot of them won't want to put their work into a pool of blog quality articles (no offence intended... I count myself amongst the blog quality writers, if I'm lucky).
- A separate site (The Steemit Review or something catchy) could be created based on the hashtag in a more 'news site' style that would make those articles more consumable for non Steemers (it would also be a gateway to Steemit.com for the new readers of course).
I love your recommendations. And you're right. We can beta invite a few journalists to see how this experiment works out. And a well-monitored tag will help convince them Steemit is the real deal. Would love to see how this is going to be implemented.
Hi, am really interested by this topic - I'm a freelance journalist and wrote an introductory post at the start of this week discussing some similar issues. Would love to talk more about how it could work in practice!
Interesting gossip: .