CNN: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
Published by annieo February 6th, 2009 in citizen journalism, future, journalism, newspapers, purpose, technology.CNN asked viewers to respond to: “How important is saving America’s newspapers?”
Here is my quick, obvious, response:
Today, newspapers are too big and too slow to survive.
The reporters, photographers, infographics specialists and editors with newspapers need to survive. They are experts in gathering essential news and conveying it effectively to the masses.
Most of these professional journalists will need financial backing. They may find work with those news organizations, which use instantaneous and inexpensive methods of dispersing news 100 percent. These companies will have a much smaller overhead and will work mainly as wire services. Currently, companies like Google and Yahoo! disperse news from wire services. This trend will continue, providing one source of income.
Also, the trend of citizen journalism will continue, as people freely share their eye witness accounts via words and photos. This competition could motivate professional journalists and news organizations to provide essential news the masses need and want, not news which has been debased by favoritism and political aims.
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