A few words of wisdom from Jean-François Fogel, a consultant with Le Monde Interactif in France. He was speaking at a session at the Online Journalism Symposium in Texas on Friday.
His four key points:
- The internet is the battlefield for an ongoing war of innovation and the press has lost every battle
- Convergence is an excuse for a smaller newsroom. But he believes it is too early to close a separate website operation as this provides a lab for innovation
- Print is facing crisis of story-telling. The audience using the web as a kit to put together their view of the world. So journalists need rethink how to write in a digital and discontinuous age
- The book is the next missed opportunity. New technology for binding and distribution is here and newspapers have an opportunity to take the lead here
Fogel is spot on with his comments on innovation. The press has lost to Google, Craigslist, Flickr, the list goes on. We are a time of crisis, but also of opportunity. The press needs to be ready to take chances, innovate, and, sometimes fail.
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