Since the shock that the Internet is changing the way in which news is produced and consumed has worn off, the discussion has turned to how things are changing. Here are a few of the latest ways in which journalism is transforming for the future.
There is a serious predicament facing that century-tested bastion of journalism, the people who decide what the public should know, the ultimate conventional gatekeepers; news editors. Some believe that editors are more necessary than ever in sifting through the plethora of information on the Internet. Others feel that online interactivity could replace traditional editors with peer-to-peer suggestions. In these respects, the question is, in the digital world, will editors thrive or will they die?
Posted by John Burke on January 25, 2006 at 10:02 AM
The Wisconsin State Journal has opened its editorial process to its readers. They are now able to choose which stories they would like the paper to print on the following day's front page. Four to five stories are listed daily on the paper's website under a section entitled "Reader's Choice" on which readers vote.
Posted by John Burke on November 22, 2005 at 2:51 PM
Journalism is under fire. It has lost the public's trust. It is marred by scandal. It is looked at by those who "own" it as an aside to a profit machine, not a community service.
Although all this looks bad, we still depend on journalism as one of the guiding forces in democracy. So who's going to fix it?
