Creating millions of lone-wolf, single-person bloggers doesn’t get us to a golden age…If you’re going to reliably produce journalism that improves the world, maybe you don’t need a village, but you need some collaborators. You need lots of reporters. You need editors, data journalists, a lawyer…
It’s time that we embrace the dominance of the web, not just say ‘Digital First’, but mean it. News platforms are rising frequently on the Internet; some, like BuzzFeed, are amassing huge traffic and edging toward profitability. If I were the young journalists and journalism students here, that’s the kind of team I’d want to join.
Paul Steiger
The speech, given today by the ProPublica founder, is brilliant and a must-read for any blogger or journalist.