My friend John Bell at Oglivy asked me to provide some feedback on what Jay Rosen is up to with NewAssignment.net, a new open source journalism project.
No need to re-post here – you can read what I said at John’s blog:
Digital Influence Mapping Project: Is NewAssignment New Media?
Newspapers are failing, and my friend and advisor Alan Webber knows why: the problem isn’t technology, shifting business models or all the other excuses newspaper executives like to talk about. The problem is lousy products.
From Alan’s Nov. 13, 2006 post:
What’s happened, I think, is that newspapers have stopped asking the right questions. They’ve stopped provoking public conversation about the great issues of our time. They’ve stopped seeing themselves as provocateurs of public discourse. … Why do movies, the Web, TV, get to have all the fun? Ask all the good questions? Carry all the inspirational, challenging, provocative answers?
Ouch.
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