A Titanic opportunity or a threat

Charlie Beckett reports on the debate that took place at the Oxford Union to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Reuter's fellowships.

Entitled "Journalism is in crisis",Charlie points out that

journalism is at a critical point but I was arguing against the motion because I think that journalism has never been better and I believe that the opportunities to improve it are larger then the threats.

and reports on the contribution of to the argument where the profession was compared to the Titanic

The ‘Titanic’s real problem was not the iceberg or a useless captain. It’s real problem was the airplane. Eventually all steamships lost their business to airlines. But we didn’t stop travelling. In fact we travel more. Journalism is like travel. It will change modes, but the need and demand for the product will not decline. Our job is to build flying machines.