Buried Alive by Shirky

We are in the midst of a revolution. For many, this may be exciting, indulging yourselves with loads of tech candy but for newspaper journalists, this shift has them shaking in their unemployment boots.
Clay Shirky, media guru, believes that although the newspaper industry may be falling to bits (of course, some of them putting themselves back together again online), that the important thing is to save the newspaper journalists who, essentially, matter the most. Like most tragedies, not much could have been done to prevent the demise of this cherished institution. He also mentions that we have shifted from “save newspapers” to “preserve an institution,” so I asked a second-year journalism student at Ryerson University, if and how he would save this industry.
“Definitely, I think that’s our vocation and our calling that we have to save media. We have to save journalism. Right now it’s broken; right now it’s in danger of not existing (newspapers). I’m hoping that we find a way to do that but I don’t know how,” said David Thurton, who has worked for the national newspapers publication, the Trinidad Guardian.
He would like to see a world in which online and print news coexist.




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