Esto es para mis amigos colegas. Es un texto pulicado originalmente por Columbia Journalism Review por dos autores: Leonard Downie Jr. (vicepresidente y ex editor ejecutivo de The Washington Post y profesor de periodismo del Arizona State University) y Michael Schudson (profesor of comunicación de la Columbia University).

Y dice lo siguiente:
"In the age of the Internet, everyone from individual citizens to political operatives can gather information, investigate the powerful, and provide analysis. Even if news organizations were to vanish en masse, information, investigation, analysis, and community knowledge would not disappear. But something else would be lost, and we would be reminded that there is a need not just for information, but for news judgment oriented to a public agenda and a general audience. We would be reminded that there is a need not just for news but for newsrooms. Something is gained when reporting, analysis, and investigation are pursued collaboratively by stable organizations that can facilitate regular reporting by experienced journalists, support them with money, logistics, and legal services, and present their work to a large public. Institutional authority or weight often guarantees that the work of newsrooms won’t easily be ignored".

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