Re-imagining journalism

Everybody acknowledges that the news market remains in deep crisis. While the prognosis differs and the prescriptions for revival vary, everybody seems to think that in order to be reinvented, journalism needs to be re-imagined.

I follow 3 academic centres that track the news market carefully: the Reuters Institute for the Research Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) released by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and the Nieman Journalism Laboratory at Harvard University. All of them are tracking the numerous factors that have actually added to the crisis, consisting of digital disturbances, the diminishing marketing market, the trust deficit and the debunking of journalism by the political management.

The crisis has likewise touched some public broadcasting organisations which have a dedicated earnings stream. BBC is to make 450 personnel working on its local programs in England redundant as part of cost-cutting measures which will see lots of popular regional television and radio speakers lose their tasks.

A job requiring collective thought

CJR has been arranging a series of conversations titled “The Search for Solutions” under its “The Journalism C