The Future of Journalism
1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? It holds powerful institutions and individuals responsible for their actions 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? Newspapers traditionally relied on advertising revenue rather than sales but the internet disrupted this systems and companies now advertise on websites 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age? people no longer consume news as a full newspaper package and rather read individual stories rather then the whole newspaper 4) Shirky also talks about the power of shareable media. How does he suggest the child abuse scandal with the Catholi...
