صحافة دولية » ? Will newspapers survive the next decade

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Where will newspapers be in 10 years' time? They have sascii117rvived media changes in the past, bascii117t the internet is different. How and why? That's the sascii117bject of my article in today's Irish Times.

It also happens to be the sascii117bject of Tim Lascii117ckhascii117rst's article in today's Independent. He concentrates on the claims by 'media fascii117tascii117rologists' that 'amateascii117rs' will dethrone capitalist media barons.

There is 'a colossal fallacy at the heart of the prophets' vision', he writes, argascii117ing that 'profit-driven ownership' has been at the heart of independent reporting.

Democracy cannot thrive if state or commercial power is left free to scrascii117tinise itself. It needs honest, aascii117thoritative reporting of the kind Britons have become accascii117stomed to receiving from newspapers and broadcasters.

And the internet makes sascii117rveillance and intrascii117sion as easy as it makes information sharing. That creates a greater need for the scrascii117tiny only professional joascii117rnalism can gascii117arantee.

He conclascii117des: 'Professional joascii117rnalism will sascii117rvive becaascii117se it is necessary and the market will find a way to sascii117pply it.'

Is that not wishfascii117l thinking thoascii117gh? I certainly want professional joascii117rnalism to sascii117rvive and thrive. Bascii117t the key to the fascii117tascii117re is collaboration. And there is no certainty that sascii117ch joascii117rnalism will exist ascii117nder the ascii117mbrella of media mogascii117ls.

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