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# The Obligatory Clay Shirky Link
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/10/the_obligatory_clay_shirky_link/
- Published: 2009-10-07T12:21:38.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:39:33.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Clay Shirky, Journalism, news, newspapers, reporting

Whenever Clay Shirky posts about journalism, journalism blogs must link it. *It is the law.*

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In this case, it’s worth it, too. He does a very straightforward piece of \[analysis of a newspaper in the US\](http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/10/rescuing-the-reporters/), figuring out what it’s actually made up of, and how much of it is original reporting.

I wonder how many of us have the courage to do a similar exercise on our own publications?