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Brock book optimistic on journalism if not so much on print ::as for future of journos themselves, it's more complicated::

Posted On 2013.09.042022.04.05In Sources

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The greatest single driver of change is the quantity of information available. That shifts the emphasis of reporting and editing to the management of abundance, for information in quantity is not the same as information on which you can rely. Many journalists have yet to come to terms with this shift.

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