AN ATTEMPT TO HELP JOURNALISM FIGURE OUT ITS FUTURE IN AN INTERNET AGE
February 15, 2011 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
We just recently discovered a great website about "new" journalism: The Nieman Journalism Lab.About the Lab: "The Neiman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age."
To that end: Eight trends for journalism in 2011: A Nieman Lab talk in Toronto
/ Feb. 14 / 11 a.m.
"Whereas I think a lot of news organizations this year are going to start seeing that if they want to be the one source of news for their customers, or the primary source of news for their customers, they’re going to need to present more of the world and more of the online world, and that aggregation of pulling things together will be something they will buy into more."
"... So when all is said and done, the new world is not going to look anything like the old world. And there will still be things that we used to get from the journalism industry that we’re not going to get anymore. But in the end, I think it’s going to be counterbalanced by all the enormous wealth of new information, including a lot of really great journalism, that’s going to be produced by this new ecosystem. And in the end, I think it’s going to end up doing a better job of serving the information needs of readers and viewers and listeners."
Full article here.