All entries tagged: revolution

Thinking the thinkable: Dan Conover’s vision for the future of journalism

So you’ve read Clay Shirky’s widely-linked “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable,” and you know why the unthinkable is nigh, but Shirky has no answer (italics added):
So who covers all that news if some significant fraction of the currently employed newspaper people lose their jobs?   I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through 1500, when [...]

5 comments | Posted by Martin Langeveld | March 22, 2009 | 8:58 am

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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 [...]

7 comments | Posted by Tim Windsor | March 14, 2009 | 3:48 pm

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