A journalistic limbo until we reach The New World | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog September 27, 2009
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackImagined scenarios for online journalism, before we reach the New World (Promised Land, Golden Age etc), by Benji Lanyado:
“1) The paywalls go up, and a black market for scoops emerges
2) The non-paywall sites are damned because they didn’t
3) The fall of ‘quality’ news
4) The rise of ‘all blogosphere’, and the government subsidy solution
5) The New World: Shirky’s vision of a conglomeration of multiple news organisations begins to take shape. A handful of old media names, dramatically reduced in size and scope, survive thanks to government propping. This ‘new BBC’ competes with the vastly augmented blogosphere, and journalism becomes healthy once again.”
>> And they all live happily ever after. At least until the next disruptive technology / economic crisis / cultural shift [insert choice of cause here] …
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