New Ways of Financing Journalism Will be Found, Georgia Journalists Say at NPC Forum
Last update: 1:04 p.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2008
ATLANTA, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The future of journalism may be in niche products supported less by advertising and more by corporate sponsorships, by interest groups and by public broadcasting-style memberships, leading Georgia journalists said at a National Press Club Centennial Forum here Tuesday.
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>>>New Ways of Financing Journalism Will be Found, Georgia Journalists Say at NPC Forum
Last update: 1:04 p.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2008
ATLANTA, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The future of journalism may be in niche products supported less by advertising and more by corporate sponsorships, by interest groups and by public broadcasting-style memberships, leading Georgia journalists said at a National Press Club Centennial Forum here Tuesday.<<<
Speaking as a former journalist...
Journalism will become what it used to be - a guy with an attitude, a printer, and a box of paper, supported by readers, sometimes, but usually supported by the writer’s own skills and struggle to put his or her thoughts to paper.
The modern difference is that the paper is less important than it used to be, and the street corner or the public square is now as large as the Internet.