Journalism is Changing, Tape at 11

Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein today examined the sea change that journalism is undergoing right now:

What we’re witnessing is nothing less than a wholesale restructuring of the news business — one that has been evolving slowly for a number of years but is now proceeding at mach speed.

While his column adds little new to the discussion about the newly ascendant technology–particularly at a time when so many others are weighing in to say more or less the same thing–he focuses specifically on how we’ll all pay for news in the future, and how dangerous it’s been that so many organizations are currently giving their content away (on the other hand, others are arguing this week that it’s just as dangerous NOT to give away your content).

As he says, stay tuned. We’re pretty sure that someone will write a second column written on the future of journalism in the next week.

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