{"id":427,"date":"2009-03-16T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-03-16T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:18:43","slug":"post-paper-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/03\/16\/post-paper-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Paper Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone these days is penning jeremiads on the death of newspapers. See Michael Hirschorn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200901\/new-york-times\">piece<\/a> in the Jan\/Feb Atlantic, as well as my post about a NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/01\/28\/the-new-york-times-endowment\/\">endowment<\/a>. So it was refreshing to read <em>blogger<\/em> Clay Shirky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2009\/03\/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable\/\">speculate<\/a> about a future to journalism that isn&#8217;t so dark. Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Society doesn\u2019t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That\u2019s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we\u2019re going to need lots of other ways to strengthen journalism instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shirky doesn&#8217;t claim to know the path forward. Maybe it&#8217;s in blogs, voluntary investigative work or endowments like universities. Regardless, just as the transition from manuscript to printed book turned out well in the end, so will declining printed sources &#8212; facing down an internet as lethal as any dinosaur-killing meteor &#8212; eventually make peace with our digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone these days is penning jeremiads on the death of newspapers. See Michael Hirschorn&#8217;s piece in the Jan\/Feb Atlantic, as well as my post about a NYT endowment. So it was refreshing to read blogger Clay Shirky speculate about a future to journalism that isn&#8217;t so dark. Money quote: Society doesn\u2019t need newspapers. What we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,702,2142,678],"tags":[1751,4868,923,40,5017,58,1959,1898,4519,5016],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-citizen-journalism","category-id-project","category-ideas","tag-advertising","tag-atlantic","tag-blog","tag-books","tag-hirschorn","tag-journalism","tag-new-york-times","tag-newspapers","tag-publishing","tag-shirky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}