Big Ideas: The future of news
The Big Ideas talk this month was about The Future of News , presented by Tim Luckhurst - former editor of The Scotsman and now professor of journalism at University of Kent. Although the discussion wasn't the most enlightening use I've made of an hour and a half in the last month (or even today), it threw up a few intriguing points: That subset of "citizen journalism" which relies on unpaid, part-time people is unlikely to replace paid journalists in uncovering real stories - or, increasingly, even in the comment-and-opinion world. Indeed, I notice very clearly the differing impact of articles on this blog, between those which I've researched thoroughly and spent real time on, versus those which I dash off in half an hour as summaries of other thoughts. The correlation isn't perfect ( this article is my most popular ever) but the ones that people have really commented on, and which have found their way onto places I care about, are mostly the ones I...