Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
Simultaneously, we are facing a technological revolution the consequences of which we are only beginning dimly to grasp, let alone understand. The evidence seems to be growing that this revolution – which is more accurately a revolution in how information is generated, collected, processed, analyzed, shared, consumed, and understood – may be fundam... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
In seeing people as Citizens rather than Consumers, the true power and role of journalism in society became visible: it is not content for Consumers, but equipment for Citizens. We need great journalism to help us understand the world we live in, and equip us to create a better one.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Now if you want to know something, you go online. If you want to make what you’ve learned widely accessible, you go online. Paper will be with us for a long time, but the momentum is clearly with the new, connected digital medium. But this is not merely a shift from displaying rectangles of text on a book page to displaying those rectangles on a sc
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