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Lesson 2: How Do People Get the News?
The Elite Newspaper of the Future
In the previous module, we discussed types of news platforms. David Pogue's video is a good example of a journalist successfully making the transition from one platform (print) to an emerging platform (digital).
This lesson’s reading is by Philip Meyer, a professor at the University of North Carolina. He was a pioneer of computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and has written extensively on the emergence of digital news.
Please read Meyer's The Elite Newspaper of the Future. He wrote this in 2008 for the American Journalism Review, forecasting fairly accurately the present media landscape.