The Search for True North: New Directions in a New Territory
In this time of accelerating change, how journalists do their work and what elements of journalism will survive this digital transformation loom as questions and concerns. By heading in new directions and exploring the potential to be found in this new territory of interactivity and social media, journalists – and others contributing to the flood of information – will be resetting the compass bearing of what constitutes “true north” for journalism in our time.
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- Persephone MielMedia Re:public’s final report went to press in November. It is available on the Berkman Center’s Web site at www.mediarepublic.org. Its conclusions include the following:
- The disruption of the scarcity-based business model for traditional media outlets is leading them to reduce and shift the scope of their original reporting.
- Web-native media entities are not addressing all of the reporting gaps left by legacy media, and current structures and mechanisms do not provide sufficient incentives for them to do so.
- In the changing media environment, news consumers risk relying on news sources that are neither credible nor comprehensive.
- Despite impressive successes, participation in the online media space is not universal; there are populations and ideas that remain underrepresented.
- There are specific kinds of critically important journalism that have not found reliable sustainability models in the online media environment.
- Efforts to understand and address the issues above are limited by a lack of rigorous empirical evidence, instead relying largely on incomplete information, anecdotes and intuition.
