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With Forbes Magazine cutting a fourth of its staff, the New York Times laying off 100 workers, and Time Magazine letting go of 500, the future of news seems anything but certain—an assessment not entirely dispelled by a panel on journalism held last night at the Harvard Kennedy School...
...speakers at the forum, titled The Future of News, agreed that in order for newspapers to survive the economic downturn, there will be an inevitable shift from printed news to more online mediums...
...economic crisis, online news sites have become a cheaper alternative to printed papers for many newspapers who wish to continue operating...
While the panelists agreed that the focus on online news is not a negative shift, they stressed that the quality of journalism needs to stay the same...
According to Jeff Howe, a current Nieman fellow and contributing editor of Wired magazine, the increase in online news has also led to an increase in amateur journalism or “crowdsourcing” through mediums such as online blogs and Twitters. Howe said that these forms of news should not replace professional journalism...