The Guardian editor said at the Changing Media Summit that it is “impossible to predict on what technology platform journalism will be delivered in five years’ time or even a year.”
He predicted that more and more of that content will be provided by the readers themselves – as opposed to journalists.
“We are grappling with this balance of what goes on to the website and what goes in the paper. A great part of that web content will be generated by users in time.
The role of journalists in this multi-media age has not changed and that user-generated content will only be a compliment to their work.
There is still a role for people to find things out.
But to have people sat in a newsroom in Wapping or Farringdon Road thinking they know everything is barmy.
The smart journalists are working out ways of using that [user-generated content].”
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