12 dezembro 2006

VITAMEDIAS

The coming collapse and rebirth of newspaper journalism: The near-total collapse of the American newspaper industry as we know it is inevitable. Anything newspapers could have done to stop it should have been done years ago (Slate recently wrote that newspapers saw this coming in the mid-70s). All the social, demographic and economic trends are lined up against the industry. Over the next decade, there will be agonizing rounds of layoffs, consolidation and bankruptcies. It will be painful to watch, but it will be a necessary process for the industry to reinvent itself.

Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism: It's about trust in media today, taking into account the growing popularity of blogging and all other types of citizen journalism.