The JJW Blog

Earlier comment - “Your crazy statement notwithstanding, geekgirl, the Old York Times is basically rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Uhh no. You don’t get it. The NYT is a few years ahead of it’s competitors in redefining professional journalism. Who cares about the business model, perhaps the NYT will get an endowment who knows. But the respect for the openness of data, the use of elegant, interactive graphics that communicate to the reader on top of that data, and then giving readers access where appropriate to the sources for further research, that is changing journalism itself. This stuff is not motivated by money, it’s motivated by better journalism. You all think you are smart because you figured out that newspapers are in a death spiral but you aren’t seeing some other more important things that are happening. Professional journalism is here to stay, it’s just going to have to change to survive. And it’s not just new revenue models that are the answer. Report By mrjjwright on 01/31/2009 at 12:39am