Tom Glocer’s blog: Trust in the Age of Citizen Journalism. Speech given in Tel Aviv by Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer: The
world we live in today is one in which everyone is a consumer, everyone
a distributor, everyone an aggregator, everyone a producer. News
organizations must realize everyone is both a potential partner and
competitor. For too long the public has been a face without a voice;
the Internet has changed all that. Thanks to MediaBistro for the pointer.
At Reuters we announced last week a groundbreaking agreement with
Yahoo, parent of Flickr, to encourage amateur photographers to tag and
submit their photographs to Reuters – to put them to work as super
stringers.For me the advantage of the Internet is just that. It’s about the
return of the conversation, something we lost with the advent of mass
broadcast communication.The ancient Greeks regarded dialogue as the most effective means of
communication- a two way conversation – a Socratic dialog at its
best. The development of print, and more significantly television,
dampened that conversation. It replaced it with a one-way broadcast
model.The world we live in today is one in which everyone is a consumer,
everyone a distributor, everyone an aggregator, everyone a producer.We live in the era of the two-way pipe.
News organizations must realize everyone is both a potential partner
and competitor. A 19-year-old sitting in a dorm room cranking out
gossip, a well-established journalist blogging for her news
organization, or a respected academic all have equal right to have a
voice. Whether they have an equal voice is another matter.For too long the public has been a face without a voice, a simple
and unheard recipient of media reports, television footage and news
pictures. The internet has changed all that, giving access to all
voices on all sides of any debate. …
Good stuff.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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