That Was The Week That Was in Online Journalism

The Seattle Times won a Pulitzer Prize this week for its coverage of the murder of four police officers and the manhunt that followed. The team there provided its top-notch coverage with the help of new digital communications technologies that haven't yet won the trust many old-school journalists. In the hands of reporters and editors who know how to use them, though, they're clearly powerful tools.
At the risk of giving Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain one more reason to do 360s in his grave, I'm compelled to modify one of his best-known quotes: It seems reports of journalism's demise at the hands of technology have been greatly exaggerated.
The evidence piled up this week. Awards were announced, new business models launched, constructive criticism heaved at established news brands, and that dastardly new media even tried to give an assist to journalists trying to make sense of a Twittering, blogging world. All of it involved recognition that the mother of all mashups is underway in the news industry thanks to digital technologies. And while that's going on, it appeared that life is indeed progressing as usual, the democracy remains intact and dogs and cats are still living apart (thanks, Ghostbusters, for that last obligatory pop culture reference.)

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