Insights into the Future of News (3)

     “The future of news is going to be interactive, social, unregulated and all around you. News happens everywhere and with technology available to us, news will be reported as it’s happening. Journalists, youtubers, bloggers, twitpicers, will all work together to create the best possible news coverage.” – Janis Krums, Photographer of “Miracle on the…

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Insights into the Future of News (2)

     “The future of news is about connection and engagement. It’s an ongoing, real time, two-way collaboration in which the distinction between producer and consumer will grow increasingly hazy. Reading the news is no longer passive, it’s active. More and more people realize that by shaping and participating in the news, they can help shape…

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Insights into the Future of News

     “Everyone knows that the internet has transformed how news is both reported and consumed. This fact—that news production and distribution changes—is the new (and only) constant. Change is normal. In the future a lot more stories will be uncovered that have been ignored for too long—stories that people actually want to read about but…

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Our personal communications have changed

Because of the choices of available media, personal, one-on-one conversations are becoming increasing hard to have. There’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a host of other media channels to “stay connected” and to converse.  On Facebook, you either voice your thoughts to “friends” (and otherwise) or you comment so the unseen group can see. With Twitter…

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Latest stats re Twitter

Here are some impressive Twitter-stats revealed today by the company’s CEO Dick Costolo. 100 million users are active on Twitter Over half, 55% log on every day via mobile On average, 1 billion tweets are sent each day. This represents an 82% surge in Tweets since January 2011. Twitter.com sees 400 million unique visitors each…

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Questioning the societal impact of the Internet

Here is a must read – a very thoughtful article by Mark Wegierski (posted August 8th on ESR): The Internet: Boon or bane to serious discourse? http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0811/0811internetserdiscp1.htm The Questions: Will the Internet offer the possibilities of enhancing serious social, political, cultural, and truly philosophical debate? Or, will the Internet simply deepen the extension of American…

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