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We don’t need newspapers, we need journalism

August 16, 2010 | Posted by Jay Collier

From Clay Skirky, March 2009.

“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. … When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.”

Excerpt from: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

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