Journalism’s (Collaborative) Future
Digital forces are threatening to weaken, or even destroy, the traditional basis, role and funding of the press. But what are the virtues it brings?
That is the revolutionary change we are living through today — this transformation from transmission to communication. …Many of us who grew up in the world of transmission face the existential question of whether we can stay in business doing transmission alone. That is the profound question that lies behind attempts to wall off, or sell, our content — or the contrary instinct to seek to embed it as centrally as possible in the new ways in which information, response and counter-response are developing.
