War Game

Anna Tauzin

If you haven't read this article on the NY Times, you really should. It's called Battle Plans for Newspapers, and a small but varied group (it includes Craig Newmark and Rick Rodriguez) weigh in on what may be lost and what can still be saved in journalism. If the article itself isn't enough to keep you reading for awhile, the comments certainly will.

Incidentally, the part written by Edward Fouhy comes from a series of interviews he did as a consultant for J-Lab, while working on a very large video project we are getting ready to release.

Some of my favorite bits:
"With the current model of free online content, newspapers have essentially turned themselves into shoppers — but, ironically, still with great quality, created by the same culture and people whose work consumers used to pay for. This is complete suicide." -Steven Brill
"I am confident that the next big thing on the Internet — Web 3.0 if you like — will be a layer of professionally curated information sitting on top of the amateur Web 2.0 layer. Rather than slithering into the democratic swamp of crowd-generated content, smart local publishers should focus on their core expertise — the organization and curation of information by professionals." - Andrew Keen
"What’ll work? No one knows, but we need to experiment." -Craig Newmark