The Future of Journalism: Blog tasks
1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? He suggests that it is shrinking and that our society needs it. An example given is of the Catholic priests who raped 100 boys and rather than punishing the priest he was taken to rehab. 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.)? He states that in the past newspapers had power over adverts as if an advertisement company did not like a story published by the newspaper they were unable to fight. 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? Audiences now consume news over social media platforms. 4) Shirky also talks about the power of shareable media. How d...
