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Article: How will the editor's job change? (May 19-21, 1994 Nieman Foundation conference) (Can Journalists Shape the New Technologies?)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Off and on there is talk of a new journalism. In the 1970's we flirted briefly with a journalistic milk shake of point-of-view-as-advocacy. Pretty soon that grew flat. Today a gaggle of would-be prophets preach that technology - specifically, computer-driven technology - is forcing us toward some new journalism. The more wooly of these visions has every home a news center and every being a journalist.
After reading scores of magazine articles and news stories about where emerging technology is taking us, after debating with colleagues and attending conferences (most recently at the Nieman Foundation) I am more intrigued than ever about where we are going, but ...