Where is the digital news model heading? Craigslist founder – and Daylife investor – Craig Newmark published A Nerd’s Take on the Future of News Media Monday in the Huffington Post, emphasizing the scarcity of trust online and pointing to curation as a means to close the gap. He equates trust to human curation, stating:
The great opportunity for news organizations is to constructively demonstrate trustworthy reporting, and to visibly do so.
News curation, that is, selecting what’s news and should be visible, that’s an equally big deal.
Newmark appears to embrace the Pro-Am (Professional-Amateur) model advocated by NYU Professor Jay Rosen, asserting that the new model “will be a balance of professional editing and collaborative news filtering.”
Repeating his mantra that “Trust is the new black,” Newmark believes that a newsroom’s insistence on “objectivity” can actually be a “major destroyer of trust.” He concludes:
The successful news organizations of the future will pursue models for news curation/selection which is a hybrid of professional editing and collaboration among talented consumers.
Newmark gives us a lot to digest. So how does Daylife fit into this evolving media landscape?
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