The institutions of journalism seem in desperate need of some mechanism for re-connecting with an alienated public, and they needn’t transform themselves into online publications to do it. An e-mail address on every reporter’s stories would help. And gain journalists countless news sources as well.
Predictor: Katz, Jon
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 essay for Wired magazine, Jon Katz, the media critic for New York Magazine and a former executive producer for CBS News, discusses the future of newspapers in an Internet age. Katz writes:”The institutions of journalism seem in desperate need of some mechanism for re-connecting with an alienated public, and they needn’t transform themselves into online publications to do it. An e-mail address on every reporter’s stories would help. And gain journalists countless news sources as well.”
Biography:Jon Katz was a 1990s technology columnist/journalist who wrote for Wired, Slashdot, HotWired and Rolling Stone. Part of his career was spent as a reporter and editor for the Boston Globe and Washington Post and as a producer for the CBS Morning News. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: Online or Not, Newspapers Suck: How Can Any Industry Which Regularly Pulls Doonesbury Strips for Being Too Controversial Possibly Hope to Survive Online?
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.09/news.suck_pr.html
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