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The source material served as a вЂњbackdoor way to show someone elseвЂ™s pictures,вЂќ in JenniferвЂ™s words, and the video cribbed from its sources so extensively as to render them superfluous.

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The video was a haphazard mashup of lengthy excerpts from American local TV news stations and English-language Chinese publications, devoid of context. She pulled up the video on a desktop computer and breathlessly talked me through it, pausing every few seconds to annotate it disparagingly.

Jennifer was trying to demonstrate to me how much VidNews had grown by showing me a hastily produced video from 2013, about a baby accidentally flushed down a toilet in China. Jennifer (not her real name) was the senior editor of VidNews, my pseudonym for a news organization that, at the time of my visit in 2015, was largely producing short, aggregated videos on daily news events using brief third-party video clips, motion graphics, and original narration. IвЂ™ve never met an editor who was as eager as Jennifer was to show me one of her organizationвЂ™s worst stories. IвЂ™m pleased to have him back on these pages writing about some of the bookвЂ™s most important takeaways. He went off to grad school, became a journalism professor doing important work, and has now published his first book: Aggregating the News: Secondhand Knowledge and the Erosion of Journalistic Authority. EditorвЂ™s note: For nearly five years, Mark Coddington was a weekly presence here at Nieman Lab, writing the This Week in Review column on Fridays.

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