(So I revive an old favorite from Jay Rosen--see post below this one--and visit his website to see what he may be thinking about the current upheaval in the world of journalism. He has compiled an archive of March responses to the journalism crisis; it is limited in range, but still it is very informative. Hopefully he will soon abandon his Twitter experiment [remember he is monitoring your tweets for profit--capital or cultural: As Rosen noted, that product is itself a distillation of the huge stream of input he gets from the nearly 550 journalists, analysts and news outlets he follows on Twitter. 'I’ve hand-built my own tipster network,' he said. 'It’s editing the Web for me in real time.']... in the whole slew of responses Clay Shirky still has the most important lines for us to think about: "It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem" and "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism." I would also recommend the second person in Rosen's list: Yochai Benkler)
Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News
by Jay Rosen
PressThink
For March 2009. The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter.
As the crisis in newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the best of these pieces via my Twitter feed. It’s part of my experiment in mindcasting, which you can read about here.
Lately, the pace has picked up. A trigger was the March 13 appearance of Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. That essay went viral; it now has a phenomenal 741 trackbacks, making it an instant classic in the online literature about the fate of the press. As good as Shirky’s piece is (very very good, I think) “Thinking the Unthinkable” is only a piece of the puzzle, and mostly backward-pointing.
That’s why I’ve collected the following links. Together, they form a kind of flying seminar on the future of news, presented in real time. They are all from the month of March 2009. If you take the seminar, feel free to leave impressions in the comments. The “flying” part is simple: go ahead, steal these links. Spread the seminar. Get your people up to speed.
To Access Jay's Seminar on the Future of News
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