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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Internet, News on April 17th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Bruno Giussani published an excellent article on Lunch over IP about the future role of journalists and editors. In a world of Citizen Journalism, the role of editors and journalists is to become information facilitators, organizers and coaches. Their role becoming many times to “Point to people and get out of the way”.
Giussani explains how “old media” and “new media” aren’t antagonistic and as they are exploring how to best complement each other, they are changing inside out while at it. How will media look in the future? Giussani gives 3 example properties future media will have: Assembled media (the ability to potentially connect any media to any other media), the Read-Write Media (consumers participating and transforming media) and The Media as Places (changing the idea that a newspaper or a TV channel is a product to the idea that it’s a place).
Related: User-Generated Content Is Top Threat to Media and Entertainment Industry
Related: Huge interest in ‘Assignment Zero’ crowdsourcing experiment (Via Cyber Journalist)
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