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-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital. -
1vote"A new Pew survey may offer some good news to a journalism industry eagerly seeking new and younger customers. People in the rapidly growing ranks of wireless Internet users are more likely to retrieve news online than those who access the web in other ways."
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1vote"The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires."
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1vote"As wonderful as it might be that the hegemony of professionals over knowledge is lessening, there is a downside: our grasp of and respect for reliable information suffers. … The new politics of knowledge that I advocate would place experts at the head of the table, but — unlike the old order — gives the general public a place at the table as well."
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1voteInfluential elites in China trust online news twice as much as newspapers but not as much as television
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1voteAs people become more focused on the news they read online, the editor's role within traditional media because even more important "because our mission is to expose you to things you wouldn't have clicked on." ~Charles Gibson
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2voteWhile plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web site as a source in papers or other academic work.
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