From the report: "If you wanted to sum up the past decade of the news ecosystem
in a single phrase, it might be this: Everybody suddenly got a lot more
freedom. The newsmakers, the advertisers, the startups, and, especially, the
people formerly known as the audience have all been given new freedom to
communicate, narrowly and broadly, outside the old strictures of the broadcast
and publishing models. The past 15 years have seen an explosion of new tools
and techniques, and, more importantly, new assumptions and expectations, and
these changes have wrecked the old clarity." Read more
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Ten Years that Shook the Media World
Nielson, Rasmus Kleis. "Ten Years that Shook the Media World." Report prepared for the Reuters Institute, October 11, 2012.
From the brief: "A new report published today by the Reuters Institute, shows
that even after more than a decade of often dramatic turmoil in the media
sector, we are only at the beginning of a longer transitional period….. In the
absence of major business innovations, the commercial underpinnings of
professional journalism continue to erode in most of the Western world as “old
media” decline or move away from news and very few online-only new media
companies have found sustainable models for news production. While new digital
platforms have created exciting new opportunities for socializing, information
sharing, and search, it is not clear that they provide a hospitable environment
for professional journalism." Read more
