All entries tagged: Gutenberg
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Even for those of us familiar with his ideas, [...]
Clay Shirky on the unavoidable revolution happening to newspapers
I try not to do too many of those “You’ve got to read this” posts. But you’ve got to read this. Clay Shirky:
Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone — covering every angle of a huge story — to the daily grind of attending the City Council meeting, just [...]
