Frank Catalano: The latest challenge facing journalism may have less to do with new media vs. old media and more with what it means to be a “new journalist.” The final catalyst may be the death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and other media outlets like it.
To me, as someone who spent a good part of his career as a journalist in print, TV and radio, the question now really isn’t what will happen to the newspapers. Or, down the line, the TV and radio stations.
The question is what will happen to the journalists, whom we rely upon for what’s in the newspapers and the newscasts. It’s their output that we need, not the distribution mechanism of newsprint or radio waves or the infrastructure of printing presses and rabbit ears.
Infrastructure is not journalism; infrastructure – including the Internet – is the delivery method.
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