The weight of establishment and tradition


A great piece from Om Malik on media. There’s lot of food for thought in this piece.

Among his highlights:

  • No one could’ve predicted FB and Twitter as the boosters for media and this is why we’ve seen so much change and new models.
  • The problem with media is that it’s trying to find a answer within itself and not looking at what readers want.
  • The internet as we know it is at an end. The Chinese and Brazilian internets are developing in their own way and pace.
  • Putting a paywall on a thing people were getting for free is a backward move. You must create a new, compelling, useful experience.
  • My open source tools are a paper and a pen.
  • Journalism schools need to teach journalism for the social media age.
  • Big publishers are in the habit of always ‘taking’ from users, not giving back.
  • We are limited by the industrial definition/model of journalism.
  • It is time for big publications to think of themselves as technology platforms.

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