Newspapers: The future of journalism

1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this?

He gave the case of the Catholic Church conceal the Boston Globe gave in 2002. A cleric could mishandle more than 100 children as the congregation would bring him into recovery and after that fizzled; he could do this in many dioceses. Responsibility Journalism gives us more capacity to raise accounts of debasement and conceal. This kind of news coverage is contracting which is unsafe as we can't consider people with significant influence responsible.

2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)?

Sponsors before needed to overpay daily papers to have a place, as there weren't numerous different options previously. It's not true anymore where supply sets the cost yet the genuine interest of them. Dating sites used to be significant publicising generators, however now they simply promote to pertinent sites on the web.

3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age?

The shopper presently chooses what news they need to consume,they never again need to see the tales that the maker puts in yet they have not turned into the makers; they are in charge. Gatherings of people are all the more somewhere down in their own particular resound chambers, crowds currently choose the readership of an online daily papers. They need mass stories, not an omnibus production like the New York Times.

4) Shirky also talks about the power of shareable media. How does he suggest the child abuse scandal with the Catholic Church may have been different if the internet had been widespread in 1992?

It would have been similar with the Geoghan case, it would have spread worldwide and people wouldn't have forgotten about it.

5) Why does Shirky argue against paywalls? 

Accountability journalism should be a public good.

6) What is a 'social good'? In what way is journalism a 'social good'?

'A group of people, get together and do something for themselves'. Journalism isn't a good that is dominated by commercial interest.

7) Shirky says newspapers are in terminal decline. How does he suggest we can replace the important role in society newspapers play? What is the short-term danger to this solution that he describes?


There should be another class of news coverage that is swarm sourced or enrichment should be set up. The transient peril is that there will be a quick decay as the biological system will require time to adjust, and this era is the place debasement can flourish as significance of stories is put behind the significance of the quantity of perusers a stage gets.

8) Look at the first question and answer regarding institutional power. Give us your own opinion: how important is it that major media brands such as the New York Times or the Guardian continue to stay in business and provide news?

I believe it's critical that these brands remain to give us news and responsibility news coverage. This doesn't need to be a model of simply print yet in addition spreading stories that bring those of defilement and wrongdoings into general society light that are on the web. It's particularly hard where the computerised news scene is simply immersed with stories that won't see the general population eye or aren't of any significance of influencing gatherings of people to consider influencing their political conclusion. Furthermore, influencing supposition is critical as it influences individuals to consider the two sides of the contention which is a tremendous decay with resound chambers being in constrain all over the place. This is on the grounds that promoters and different foundations channel news and sentiments that they think they concur with. however, don't really consider the 'restricting side', as organisation channel them news that keep them on their stages consistently.

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