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As major news organizations raced to publish stories on the latest Wikileaks documents about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, they were competing yet again against websites uploading raw data.
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"And particularly the threat is to traditional investigative reporting and journalism which takes place in institutions like The New York Times," says Rossi, who argues the dissemination of information online could threaten quality journalism. "I think that the idea of the democratization of information flow is really exciting. But there is also something to be said for a process that involves editors and writers and sort of the filtering of information in checking and in making sure that it's accurate. Something that the blogosphere doesn't always provide."
But Amy Eisman, professor of journalism at American University, disagrees."Look at what happened in Japan. You have this devastation. In fact,
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Eisman believes regardless of what happens to newspapers, good reporting will live on."You're gonna see many more journalists that will be sort of independent freelancers. And they may get a lot of people to give them money to go to Iraq,
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"You have to pay a journalist to go into a war zone. You have to pay a journalist to cover the city council or the zoning board meetings. That's the struggle news organizations face right now: to support the newsroom,
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Sparrow says, until now, brands like the New York Times have been competing not only against the massive flow of digital information but also against free-of-charge information online.
Recently,
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"The question about Paywall, is the brand valuable enough to make you want to pay for that information? Because you know that if you’re getting it from that source, it’s verified, it’s accurate,
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