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Karl // Nov 25, 2009 at 10:02 pm

I don’t know that journalists are resistant to the Web as far as suspicions go. I know many a journalist who’d be unemployed right now if they weren’t working online for their brand/outlet.

I don’t disagree with your post but I do see the online aspect two-fold: on the one hand, there’s a lot more space to tell in-depth stories and coverage online than there is in print. The web also has the immediacy and instantaneous global reach that makes reporting energizing again. It’s still about the details and being current and while it makes for a later deadline, many writers are up to the challenge, especially if you’re filing with a good online editor.

There are journalists, older-school, who distrust the web and don’t want to interface with the consumers and most of them don’t have to.
In the current economy, it’s not so much the progression to digital that raises suspicions since most editorial staffers know this is part of the gig now. What raises suspicions, well before the online thrust comes, is when your newsroom printers start being removed, staff starts getting cut and the very basics you need for reporting—never mind the form it takes (digital vs. print)—are being taken away.

Digital journalism still needs writers, still needs the human/analytical mind and the skills it takes to communicate and write a story. Journalists want their bylines, online or in ink, and as staff cuts mount and the industry suffers, online is not the dual pressure cooker it was, say, two years ago. Now it’s almost job security.

I am all for print thriving- the tactile, printed proof of recorded writing - but online doesn’t have to be a cheap, suspicious realm so long as there is some grit and soul behind it.
Henrik Ö // Dec 3, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Karl, you are of course right that the online world also offers unprecedented opportunities for new forms of storytelling as well as in-depth, long form journalism in the “classical” sense.

In the journalist interviews I have been doing for my research project, I sadly see relatively little interest in this from journalists as well as editors/managers. If anything, online seems to have made stories shorter in many media outlets, which is strange considering that the online platform does not set any limits at all as to length, unlike print and broadcasting.

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