Nieman Journalism Lab: Clay Shirky – Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
September 24th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Events, Online Journalism
The Nieman Journalism Lab has helpfully supplied the audio and a transcript for a talk by Clay Shirky, NYU professor and internet theorist, at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University this week. Shirky looked at social accountability in the context of shifting business models for news.
“I think we are headed into a long trough of decline in accountability journalism, because the old models are breaking faster than the new models can be put into place.”
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