The Future of Journalism: Blog tasks
Part 1: Clay Shirky lecture 1) Why does Clay Shirky argue that 'accountability journalism' is so important and what example does he give of this? Because accountability journalism is shirking and he mentions that these changes to the print industry are irreversible rather being cyclic by going in circle and waiting for the next go around. 2) What does Shirky say about the relationship between newspapers and advertisers? Which websites does he mention as having replaced major revenue-generators for newspapers (e.g. jobs, personal ads etc.)? He states that advertisers were being forced to overpay for the services they receive because there weren't many alternatives for reaching people with display advertisements and the example was Xerox PARC. 3) Shirky talks about the 'unbundling of content'. This means people are reading newspapers in a different way. How does he suggest audiences are consuming news stories in the digital age? He says people read newspapers in