Media and Culture Workshop Series: Robert Cottrell, "The Death of Journalism?" - Workshop 3 (of 3): The Forecast

Begins
 9 Apr 2008 - 6:00pm
Ends
 9 Apr 2008 - 8:00pm
Location
66 W 12th St., Room 619
Spring 2008 MCID Workshop Series

Robert Cottrell of The Economist

The Death of Journalism?: The War Between the New and the Old

 

WORKSHOP 3 (of 3): THE FORECAST

Scenarios for journalism in 2018:
(i) "It was all a bad dream". The resurgence of traditional media.
(ii) "Blogland". The triumph of new media, but suppporting serious journalism.
(iii) "Twittered away". The triumph of new media, but racing for the bottom.

Robert Cottrell is deputy editor of Economist.com, the online arm of The Economist. He was previously a foreign correspondent in Asia and Europe, for The Economist and the Financial Times. He also writes regularly for The Spectator of London, and for the New York Review of Books.

 

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