Journalists will have to be proactive

Thanks to Adrian Monke who,talking of the future of journalism brings attention to this piece by Dave Winer who suggests:

First, reform journalism school. It's too late to be training new journalists in the classic mode. Instead, journalism should become a required course, one or two semesters for every graduate. Why? Because journalism like everything else that used to be centralized is in the process of being distributed. In the future, every educated person will be a journalist, as today we are all travel agents and stock brokers. The reporters have been acting as middlemen, connecting sources with readers, who in many cases are sources themselves. As with all middlemen, something is lost in translation, an inefficiency is added. So what we're doing now, in journalism, as with all other intermediated professions, is decentralizing. So it pays to make an investment now and teach the educated people of the future the basic principles of journalism.

Adrian suggests that

"Journalism should be the Rhetoric of the modern curriculum - a key component of higher education. This fits with the idea that people who generate data and theories need to take ownership of their work's dissemination, ........"

Further cooment suggests that journalism will survive bu it will need to be proactive with its audience.

Illustrated by this interview with the CEO of Facebook

“In the next iterations, you’re going to see real stories being produced. ‘These people went to this party and they did this the next day and then here’s the discussion that was taking place off of this article in the Wall Street Journal.