NYU Prof. Jay Rosen posted this on Twitter this morning: “Paul Carr is going contrarian on citizen journalism’s ass. Jerks with cell phones and Twitter accounts appall him http://jr.ly/mypg”
Last week, Coventry University ran a video conference whose title asked, “Is World Journalism in Crisis?” Jeremy Paxman appeared, as did I. “Crisis is a journalistic word,” he said.
The decline of newspapers is a tragedy for democracy. How can it be stopped?
With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle.
Its 17 declarations on the future of journalism in the age of the internet have been discussed worldwide.
Business models are important–but questions like “what kind of journalism best integrates with the nature of 21st-century democracy and society?” are also practical problems.
The hard truth about the future of journalism is that nobody knows for sure what will happen; the current system is so brittle, and the alternatives are so speculative, that there’s no hope for a simple and orderly transition from State A to State B. Chaos is our lot; the best we can do is identify the various forces at work shaping various possible futures. Two of the most important are the changing natures of the public, and of subsidy.
“Check the source” may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers.
This whole Jobs liver transplant story really hits the sweet spot for two of my obsessions: Apple and journalism. It’s the journalism angle that I find the most intriguing.
Three apparently unrelated items on the shift from valuing the product to valuing the process as the product:
Word to those who think the Internet spells the end of traditional print media: “hacker journalists” have arrived to save the day.
An alarm went off on some desk at The New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again.
Apparently there was a big meeting of news executives today in Chicago under the auspices of the Newspaper Association of America.
Journalists like to think of their work in moral or even sacred terms.
Unless Congress embarks on far-reaching change in public policy to maintain the viability of journalism as it evolves online, we will soon find ourselves with the remnants of a broken industry incapable of providing the knowledge necessary to manage life in a complex world.
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