The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
When the printing press was invented in 1440, we opened up a new era in information distribution. Thoughts and ideas could spread faster than word of mouth in the first form broadcast media — a one to many dynamic.
Erik Torenberg • How the Internet Ate Media
Chaotic information was free: good information was expensive.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
From now on, news can break into public consciousness without the traditional press weighing in. The news media can end up covering the story *because* something has broken into public consciousness via other means.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Many papers missed the story, downplayed the story, cheek-turned away from the story. But the Times was different than these many newspapers. First, it was the most prominent of the American newspapers of that time, to the extent that the Associated Press ran a daily news summary of what the Times printed each day, since what the Times considered “
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