Fred Wilson on the future of journalism


	Fred Wilson on the future of journalism

mathewi

5-11-2007 11:45 AM

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Is Twitter a form of journalism? Is MySpace the future of journalism? Fred Wilson says it just might be.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/95eb1e26-bfa7-4af5-afde-7b261451dc3f/456FC5EF-4B8F-402C-BAEB-992ED5EC095D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_new_journal.html" href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_new_journal.html" style="font-size: 11px;">avc.blogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_new_journal.html"><P>I think journalism itself is a dated concept. We are now in the world of conversation. We are talking to ourselves. John Heilemann said it best in <A href="http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/31539/">his recent column in NY Magazine</A> about Murdoch's designs on the WSJ:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_new_journal.html"><P><EM>Did anybody at Dow Jones ever contemplate purchasing MySpace? Did
Arthur Sulzberger or Don Graham? I don’t know, but I’d wager they
didn’t even know what MySpace was. The obvious retort is, Why should
they have? What does social networking have to do with journalism? And,
no doubt, a precise answer is hard to conjure. But if you don’t believe
that the intermingling of these spheres will be central to how future
generations consume their news, you’ve apparently been sleeping—and
clearly don’t have kids.</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/05/the_new_journal.html"><P>The intermingling of these spheres will be HOW future generations comsume their news. Period. End of story. I learn stuff on Twitter every day that is more profound than many of the blogs I read.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/456FC5EF-4B8F-402C-BAEB-992ED5EC095D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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