What is the future of journalism in the digital world?

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Interestingly, at least in the United States, journalism itself is recovering. You can thank the orangutans. Since the election, the fourth industry has fully improved its competitiveness and reminded me of the importance of news media / media facing fascism. It may save us from Trumpweden

Unfortunately, the business model has not changed. So, regardless of the number of people subscribing to the New York Times (and perhaps the entire content of major publications), I think the income model is not sustainable. When the news are too commoditized and the New York Times is made public to the public exclusively, it will be the third replay of GoodEnoughNews.com (please do not click, I just did), the New York Times will pay as much as $ 1 I can not see. Ad revenue and other important recommended traffic comes from that income.

To my knowledge, no one has come up with a solution that really applies to converting digital news into profit. A single point micropayment system like Paywall, Freemium / quality model, Blendle is all trial stage, but I have never heard of a solution to this problem. This will be all beneficiaries (new owners of Washington Post, Jeff Bezos etc.) and / or criminals (such as Rupert Murdoch and all Cthulhu worshiper) that are funding all of us. Brett Bart, InfoWars, World News Daily and his colleagues)

So the newspaper / website continues to reduce staff. Recently one of my close friends reported the technology for one of the largest national newspapers in the US and he was cut down after 17 years of work. This is just business, Fredo

Fortunately, he got another job of journalism in a famous business magazine. But he is one of the lucky people. Because most of the experienced staff, freshly fired in Mashable, has little experience, it is difficult to find other journalism jobs and there is a possibility to do other things (probably marketing or PR).

Then there is a robot. Companies such as narrative science and automatic insight. Robots have been used to create sports and financial articles for shops such as AP and Los Angeles Times. Welcome to our new robotic control

But no matter how smart your AI is, you can not journalize without a reporter. At least, I hope that you can not

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