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OJ 1 Week 1 Reading Review
Newspaper biz model is 200+ years old
• Costs: staff, printing, delivery
• Revenue: ads, classifieds, subscriptions, newsstands
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Broadcast news biz model is nearly 100 years old
• Costs: staff, equipment, and broadcasting
• Revenue: ads
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The Internet blows up both of these models.
Examples?
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Newspapers have been in decline for a while…and it accelerated in last decade.
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Big media compared to General Motors – reach wide audience, used to provide stable jobs, but
not the best at innovation.
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In early stages of web, traditional news organizations responded
with “shoveling” and trying to sell advertising in the same way.
It didn’t work.
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News readership and viewership is actually increasing, but
advertising on the web doesn’t generate as much $ as print or
broadcast.
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The web is a different beast – a fundamental shift in the way we
gather, use, and distribute information.
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Walter Lippmann vs. John Dewey
Two academics who had a big argument in the 1920s –long before the Internet.
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Walter Lippmann
Journalism is fundamental to democracy – but the connection between info and citizens is broken.
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Walter Lippmann
Journalism is good at easy stuff - major events, sports scores, or who died - but bad at covering complex social, policy, and government issues.
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Walter Lippmann
Journalism causes “derangement, misunderstanding, and even misrepresentation.”
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Walter Lippmann
Average America is clueless – “doesn’t know what is happening, why it is happening, what ought to happen.”
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Walter Lippmann
Solution is to professionalize journalism – only the elite, well trained can do it.
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John Dewey
Agreed with much of what Lippmann said, called it an “effective indictment of democracy.”
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John Dewey
But he thought that democracy was less about “information” and more about “conversation.”
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John Dewey
Democracy involves the ability to discuss, deliberate, and debate. People need places to do that.
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John Dewey
The solution is more democratic education, workplaces, and newspapers to host those “conversations.”
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Walter Lippmann
News as:
• Information
• Product
• Top down
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John Dewey
News as:
• Conversation
• A process
• Shared enterprise
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Walter Lippmann vs. John Dewey
Who cares?
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Walter Lippmann
Journalism turned out to be more like Lippmann's view. Those with influence and power decide the “news.”
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John Dewey
But Internet is more like Dewey’s view. Now everyone can participate and decide what is “news.”
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What Does This Mean for Young Journalists?
The “web killed journalism” narrative is not accurate.
Platforms may change, but journalism remains.
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What Does This Mean for Young Journalists?
What if journalism in the Internet age is more about “conversation” than “information”?
How does that change what we do?
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What Does This Mean for Young Journalists?
What if journalism is a “process” not a “product”?
How does that change what we do?
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What Does This Mean for Young Journalists?
• Innovative
• Entrepreneurial
• Participatory
• Hosting conversations
• Variety of job paths
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Where Do We Go From Here?
• Wider range of skills
• Pro vs. amateur
• “We are all web workers now”
• New mindset…what is the value of a journalist?