future of journalism
The Editors Weblog is running a series of exclusive interviews with editors of major newspaper agencies across the world on the future of journalism.
The questions are:
“How long do you think you will define your company as a newspaper company or a print company?
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, a panel of futurists claimed that print newspapers wouldn’t exist by 2014. To what extent do you agree with this?
In journalism’s multi-centennial history, do you view the emergence of digital journalism as part of the continuity, or as a complete breakaway with previous forms of journalism?
Do you believe in the increasingly active role of the user in the news process, and is it a threat or an opportunity for professional journalists?
Do you consider that the Golden Age of investigative journalism is already past, or just beginning?”
Other questions people might wonder about re: the future of journalism: would the role of newspapers and news agencies in the world change in the future? will the notion of newsvalue change? in other words, will disaster, scandal and negative news still fill more pages than good news? will freedom of press and neutrality of voice be things that can still be taken for granted in the future? could language become richer (and correct) again? who will win: depth and quality or mere speed and quantity? will we be able to have a 360° ‘read’ of events, described and discussed from a variety of perspectives? will mergers and acquisitions in the media landscape flatten or enrich reporting? will the two way street between consumer and producer of content, or prosumers for that matter, receive ever more traffic? which new evolutions in their field do journalists dream of? which are the nightmares they fear? who will be the arbiters of quality tomorrow? how will the relationship between fact, opinion & intention evolve? which new skills will journalists of the future need to learn/develop? how will the value set of journalists evolve and differ from those of former days? …
Interviewed until now are Emily Bell (Guardian.co.uk, UK), Dan Bogler (Financial Times, UK), Jonathan Landman (NY Times, US), Abdul Hamid Ahmad (Gulf News, Dubai), Jaroslaw Kurski (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland), Pana Janviroj (The Nation, Thailand), Pankaj Paul (The Hindustan Times, India), Mike van Niekerk (Fairfax Media, Australia), Azu Ishiekwene (Punch, Nigeria), Ed Greenspon (Globe & Mail, Canada), Jim Brady (WashingtonPost.com, US). Yes, we do miss our Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian, … newspaper.
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