Here comes a new blog, authored by Steven Boriss, Associate Director of the Center for the Application of Information Technology at Washington University. Says Steven:[This blog] will critique emerging events against a positive vision for where news "ought" to be headed, to regain some of the ground lost since Thomas Jefferson's passing. Jefferson's hope was for news in America to be a freewheeling marketplace of ideas in which many disparate voices were heard, with government policy dictated and its actions controlled by the sum of individual opinions. But, shortly after his death, America inadvertently began to shift in reverse due to a combination of technology, government action, journalism theory, and a few, arguably anti-competitive, business practices.I look forward to reading this blog. Very timely -- the news is in the news quite a bit these days. And it's a topic that's near and dear to me. Tomorrow morning, I'm moderating a panel that includes Craig Newmark, a man who has forced newspapers to take a hard look at their businesses. I believe that this will be a year for lots of experimentation in the newsroom. Looks like Boriss will be chronicling that story.
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