The overwhelming case for plurality by Alan Rusbridger:

“It is dangerous in any sector to allow a single player to become dominant. It is doubly dangerous with the media sector because of the combination of factors described above. The press, rightly, argues that it exists to be a check on power. But when society’s watchdog shies away from holding itself to account it thereby creates a very potent form of unaccountable power.”

Laziness is killing online journalism by Mic Wright:

“When people…crow that the internet is kicking the hell out of journalism, it is in part because their traditional platforms are crumbling. 

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This I believe about journalism and the future of media, by Steve Buttry

“I believe continued and repeated disruption of journalism and the news business will continue for the rest of my career and beyond. I believe we spend too much time discussing or lamenting whether the journalism that emerges from each disruption is better or worse than what preceded it. Most times it will be a mix. I believe nostalgia for journalism of the past interferes with practicing journalism in the present and with improving it for the future.” 

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