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Traditional media... keeping relevant?


waldo

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from a traditional print medium hold, the Guardian is running a new self-serving ad campaign... what it labels as 'open journalism':

The newspaper is moving beyond a newspaper. Journalists are finding they can give the whole picture better. Over a year the readership grows – a little in print, vastly in digital. Advertisers like it, too.

This is what we mean by open. The newspaper is the Guardian.

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I don't think I agree with the idea of blogging and commenting as journalism. Checking with Wiki- they define it as such:

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion.

So journalism is the initial reporting, and the discussion that follows is a desirable effect of journalism. That discussion happens with a "public", which roughly means a group of concerned/interested parties. New media does change the nature of the public, and most importantly gives them a voice. I have always thought that this new relationship isn't new at all, but a closer model to how the press worked when modern democracy took shape in the 18th century. As such, I welcome this new/old media, and I anticipate that it will eventually cause drastic changes in how democracy works.

It will happen, but the question is whether it takes decades, years, or months.

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