So I'm pretty interested in the question of the future of news reporting. Not the future of newspapers, necessarily, but what will be next in the evolution of news reporting?
And this blog post at Open Left is interesting.
Chris Bowers writes:
It isn't just that people are willing to produce quality content either for free or for prices that don't approach profitability. It is also that the Internet has led to a growing perception that just about all information should be free. Consumers are demanding free information, and lots of people are willing to give it to them.
Good luck finding a for-profit business model to compete against that. Eventually, if you want to make a living producing news, you will have to do it with an organization that is not interested in, and does not rely upon, making a profit.
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