Had a great day of presentations, panels and discussion today at the Future of News event here in Princeton (which reminds me a lot of Cambridge). In summary, I heard both optimism and pessimism regarding the future of news. Things that seem to be of concern:
- The collapsing of the newspaper model (which has had plenty of coverage) - though the Guardian's model was held out as an exception.
- Of greater concern: the lack of watchdog journalism implicit in "decentralized non-market" forms of media.
Optimism was expressed largely by those who were actively trying to push the evolution of the space (the best way to predict the future is to invent it).
I was mistaken for a BBC employee - can I put that on my CV?
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