Very few of us become journalists so that we can write product reviews, celebrity gossip, or forty-seven tips for driving your man crazy in bed—even if that’s how we pay the bills. Yet as media have converged online, opportunities to produce meaningful journalism—that which gives people the tools they need to understand and improve their lives and society, the kind that inspires young people to become journalists in the first place—have declined precipitously, at least within legacy media organizations able to provide decent pay, benefits, and a measure of stability. By Ken Doctor’s count , for example, newsrooms laid off approximately 13,500 employees from 2007 to 2010—jobs that digital enterprises haven’t even come close to replacing, especially on a local level.
How We’re Financing Meaningful Journalism « Knight Garage
link economy
the economics of Open Source
Journalism in the Age of Data: A Video Report on Data Visualization by Geoff McGhee
Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium.
Sergii Danylenko and Anna Prymakova asked me to speak about " changes in media over the past five years " at MediaCamp Kyiv last week. It's a pretty standard topic of discussion for me, but I felt that it would be more interesting and more useful to look at changes in media over the past 550 years.
MediaShift Idea Lab . Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years |
