State Of The News Media Not So Great In 2008
Thomas Claburn reports onInformationWeek:
In its most recent report, “The State of the News Media 2008″, the Project on Excellence in Journalism finds that the news industry is changing rapidly and not necessarily for the better.
“There is no single or finished news product anymore,” the report says. “As news consumption becomes continual, more new effort is put into producing incremental updates, as brief as 40 character emails sent from reporters directly to consumers without editing.”
In keeping with this trend, the report argues that the journalist’s assignment shifts from story telling and agenda setting to helping people find information they’re looking for and evaluate it, using tools of their own choosing.
Another finding of the report is that news organizations and news Web sites are no longer final destinations. Search has become the dominant paradigm for dealing with information online and, as a consequence, every Web page should provide ways to access search tools and other information services.
