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Chris O’Brien

News Ecosystem Demands Collaboration, Not Us vs. Them Mentality

One of the great tragedies that I see in the current debate about the future of journalism is the way the discussion continues to be framed around a series of binary choices. Newspapers or blogs. Print or online. Journalists or algorithms. In each case, there seems to be a simple-minded belief that the future will inevitably be one or the other. I consider this tragic because the result is a lot of dead-end debates that devolve into spitball fights about whether one will replace the other. My belief is that the better conversation is about how these things should complement...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

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