Nicholas Lemann, en ‘The New Yorker’

Nicholas Lemann, decano de la Escuela de Periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia, escribe en The New Yorker un artículo sobre el fenómeno del llamado ‘periodismo ciudadano’. Una reflexión documentada y reposada, alejada de algunos vaticinios de gurú tan habituales últimamente, que vale la pena leer:

Journalism is not in a period of maximal self-confidence right now, and the Internet’s cheerleaders are practically laboratory specimens of maximal self-confidence. They have got the rhetorical upper hand; traditional journalists answering their challenges often sound either clueless or cowed and apologetic. As of now, though, there is not much relation between claims for the possibilities inherent in journalist-free journalism and what the people engaged in that pursuit are actually producing. As journalism moves to the Internet, the main project ought to be moving reporters there, not stripping them away.

Más:

– Amateur hour. Journalism without journalists (The New Yorker, 07/08/2006)