Comments on: Making media social: news as user experience

By: Kenneth Chadwick

Kenneth Chadwick — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:26:29 +0000

I am a businessman and am considering pulling all my newspaper and magazine based advertising and advertising solely online

By: Malcolm Evans

Malcolm Evans — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:08:23 +0000

I think it is breaking into two distinct streams – the commentary from enthusiasts (“experts”, if you like, but I’m not crazy on that term) and, secondly, the noisemakers/spammers.
As a former national newspaper journlist, who left due to the ethics and disninvestment in the sector to puruse solo commercial opportunities, I for one think it is no bad thing that the advertising-driven monopoly on journlism is being dismantled. It is up to all of us who are interested in sites like this, without me tryng to sound pi, to try to ensure that the quality of what we can create in seconds and isolation online would pass muster against terrestrial peer review.

By: Cindy Royal

Cindy Royal — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:45:10 +0000

I certainly agree with the commenter above. Although my students don’t tend to read newspapers or watch news broadcasts, they are very well informed. I think that people are engaging with news and information more than ever. There are so many opportunities to seek information, and contribute to it.

By: 173.30.131.195

173.30.131.195 — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:01:20 +0000

I teach at the Missouri School of Journalism and work at Newsy.com, a new online video global news site.

Agree with you completely that journalism is not dying it is just taking new forms. When I ask my class (all under the age of 30) how many of them have bought a newspaper or watched the evening news – no hands go up.

This is alarming to some but ask them about current events, and they are completely informed. They learn about events through Twitter and Digg – this next generation believes “that if a story is important enough, it will find them.”

That’s the challenge and opportunity for original content providers.