For some reason most online publications still think we're in the era of paper journals and stubbornly refuse to corredate their articles with references as if they had strict space constraints
No, they think they’re in the 21st century and think it brings in more money when site visitors click on links that stay on their site than when they click on outgoing links.
> it brings in more money when site visitors click on links that stay on their site than when they click on outgoing links
As trust in journalism declines, I wonder if/when we will start to see a reversal of this?
Providing sources, and bragging about providing sources when other news orgs do not, seems like it would be a great selling point to a lot of people. At the same time, I would also bet that the vast majority of people would never check/click the sources if provided, especially if structured like a bibliography and pushed off to the side. Just the comfort of believing the sources are available would be enough to keep people coming back, meaning journalists would get to have their cake and eat it too.
I think you could technically refer to them as journalists too but I meant the traditional non-independent kind. Honestly the rise of bloggers + youtubers providing higher quality well sourced content than the mainstream is partially why I think this might become a de-facto requirement to compete in the future.
Because those alternatives exist, people who care about that kind of sourcing will select themselves out of the audience of traditional journalism. That will leave that audience with less demand for such rigor.
(At least that's an alternative story you can spin. So we can't say a priori whether your narrative or mine would prevail, at least not without leaving our armchairs.)
A new ranking boost for high reputation outbound links similar to the current boost for high reputation inbound links would encourage citations because editors would encourage the practice from journalists.
Some check might be necessary to make sure the citation fits the context of the article, however current NLP tech can manage that fairly well - and again I vaguely remember that Google has a some kind context check for outbound links too.
The publication is open access and has images. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-022-00302-w