Journalism Will Not Die

If you are not following @jasonfalls on Twitter or reading his blog Social Media Explorer, you should. He is one of the best minds out there commenting on social media. He is also a great writer and keeps the discussion entertaining.

An excerpt from The Future of Social Media by Jason Falls

"Journalism Will Not Die - Media is changing because of social media, but as much as I've picked on old-school journalism, there's still a need for accuracy, ethics and quality in reporting. Newspapers may very well die. Traditional media outlets that don't shift their focus to a web-first approach certainly will. But journalism will never go away. We need it as a society because it keeps our world - government, industry and more - honest. Where will the journalists go? That I'm not so clear about, though it will certainly be in web-centric opportunities. But all the social media evangelists and bloggers in the world can't tear down one of the world's most noble professions."

Agree/disagree? What do you think?

Tools: Zemanta.

Here's a few words from Andraz Tori, the founder of Zemanta, on how his research tool can help you. (Follow him on Twitter: @andraz)

"Here's a proper answer, mostly compiled from what our users said:

-it lets journalists do research while they are writing (by checking out related articles - widens journalist's horizon)

-it makes it easy for readers to do further discovery on their own (in-text links for in-depth info and related articles for other views and thoughts on the topic)

-it reduces journalist's non-creative workload (images, tagging)

Bottom line is: Better articles both content-wise and form-wise while reducing the workload."

Here's a screenshot from the tour of Zemanta.