I'm interested in seeing journalism continue and thrive so that we can preserve the means necessary to having an informed public. This concerns me because without an informed public, democracy fails. There may be exceptions, but by and large at the conference there was an intensely held and widely shared belief that newspapers missed the Internet and that the Internet has already passed them by. But the pessimism among the weekend participants was striking. The Freedom Forum 4.
Careers change fast in online news.
I was surprised how many of us, from such diverse media backgrounds but all seasoned by experience over a lot of years at many newspapers and media outlets, had recently changed jobs or specialties. All of us are still in media, but it is the Internet that has stirred our passions and excited our interest. As we went around the room and talked about who was doing what now and why, I realized that the future of journalism is increasingly tied to the Internet. They knew that everything had changed. Their colleagues in print and radio thought them foolhardy.