The rise of the reader : #journalism in the age of the open web | Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia | Comment is free | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/09/the-rise-of-the-reader-katharine-viner-an-smith-lecture
De nombreux exemples et passages très intéressants dans cette conférence, sur le #journalisme à l’ère du web, la #transparence et le #paywall, le #partage et les #whistleblowers, l’#indépendance de la #presse etc. :
For 500 years, knowledge was contained, in a fixed format that you believed to be a reliable version of the truth; now, moving to the post-print era, we are returning to an age when you’re as likely to hear information, right or wrong, from people you come across. Pettitt says that the way we think now is reminiscent of a medieval peasant, based on gossip, rumour and conversation. “The new world is in some ways the old world, the world before print” he says.
In a world in which we are all flooded with information, readers also want to know how you arrived at a story, and how you account for any errors you may have made. This is why readers’ editors who are independent from editors are so vital, and why the ’show your workings’ approach is a powerful tool.
Journalists want to be paid, yes. And we want to find business models that make that possible - via advertising, partnerships, donation, cross-subsidy. But how could the future of journalism be safe behind a paywall, when the future of journalism is going on outside them?
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