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Sunday, December 10, 2006

20061209 Is a new age of American Journalism by Mark Tapscott




December 9th, 2006

Tapscott's Copy Desk on Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/blogs/tapscotts_copy_desk

Mark Tapscott
[1] is a fellow Carroll Countian and the editorial page editor for the Washington Examiner.

On Mr. Tapscott’s blog, “
Tapscott’s Copy Desk,” he has quite an interesting post on the future of journalism, which makes for a worthwhile read:

Is a new golden age of American journalism right around the corner?


December 6, 5:36 PM

This may shock some but my answer to the question posed by the headline is an enthusiastic yes. The Internet has reduced the cost of publishing to virtually zero and made it possible for everybody with access to a computer to have their say on anything and everything.

When the creative energies of a bunch of people are given free rein - which by the way is essentially what the free market does on the economic side of life - good things happen. Innovative new products and services appear, problems are solved and opportunities created. There is no reason to think journalism is exempt from this process.

There are all kinds of fascinating new approaches to the gathering and reporting of news. Blogs, of course, represent the biggest expansion of publishing in the history of mankind and, while most of the estimated 55 million blogs now in existence are not devoted to the news, thousands of them are and the result is more news is being produced, sliced and diced and communicated than ever.


Read the rest here.

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[1] According to a brief bio on Mark Tapscott’s blog, “Tapscott’s Copy Desk,” “Mark Tapscott is editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner and tracks the internet revolution in media and government. He is a member of the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame and a member of the Media Bloggers Association board of directors. He is also a founding member and host of NewsTrust.net, as well as a visiting journalism fellow at The Heritage Foundation think tank.”

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