Dean Starkman on the future of news: “According to this [‘future-of-news’] consensus, the future points toward a network-driven system of journalism in which news organizations will play a decreasingly important role. News won’t be collected and delivered in the traditional sense. It will be assembled, shared, and to an increasing degree, even gathered, by a sophisticated readership, one that is so active that the word ‘readership’ will no longer apply. Let’s call it a user-ship or, better, a community.”
WALL STREET MANAGES LATE TURNAROUND
Dean Starkman on the future of news: “According to this [‘future-of-news’] consensus, the future points toward a network-driven system of journalism in which news organizations will play a decreasingly important role. News won’t be collected and delivered in the traditional sense. It will be assembled, shared, and to an increasing degree, even gathered, by a sophisticated readership, one that is so active that the word ‘readership’ will no longer apply. Let’s call it a user-ship or, better, a community.”
