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Saving the business of journalism is not necessarily saving journalism. Few industry leaders speak primarily of news on websites anymore; providing consistent and timely content — i.e., post it right now — is what matters to the corporate managers. The will of industry managers to invest in accountability journalism — what citizens need to know — has, perhaps, atrophied beyond revival.
Is journalism's audience waning in its intellectual ability to recognize the kind of information it needs to properly function in real life? Or has it been iPodded, iPadded, and iPhoned to a stupor? News organizations gave away their product for free to this audience for well more than a decade. Now that paywalls are popping up everywhere, the audience expects more: If we’re paying now, we expect a much better show.Saving the business of journalism is not necessarily saving journalism. Few industry... more
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