Opinion: demand for new journalism healthy
“True, no new business model for journalism has appeared that looks as lucrative as the monopoly newspaper model of the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s, but people tend to forget that that period itself was an anomaly,” says Weber.
Weber’s convinced that there are new models for journalism, apart from the not-for-profit, donor-funded, philanthropist-backed option.
And while the Internet has often been considered as a threat, many new publications are also emerging.
He evokes a few news sites, including his own, that are making money while doing good journalism, such as The Tyee in British Columbia, Slate (published by the WaPo’s interactive division), or Salon.com.
The other challenge for new journalism is that “the type of things that lots of people want to read are often not the type of things that make a positive contribution to democracy,” says Weber.
Thus the challenge is “how do you do journalism about real issues that's both compelling for readers and affordable for publishers?”
Weber doesn’t provide an answer, but he takes the optimistic stance: the challenge is there for the taking, and journalism will adapt to it.
Source: Times Online
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