Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Moving from being gatekeepers to guides

One of my partners in change sent this Columbia Journalism Review story my way, "Overload!
Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information,"
saying he thought it was one of the smartest things he'd read in a while. He's right. It's an insightful and well thought-out piece and actually is a good follow to the post on Sam Zell, below.

An excerpt:
The greatest hope for a healthy news media rests as much on their ability to filter and interpret information as it does on their ability to gather and disseminate it. If they make snippets and sound bites the priority, they will fail. Attention-our most precious resource-is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of information that inundates us all.

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