“The screams from newsrooms are those of panic,” Jim Lehrer, the well known American public television anchor, told a group of university students at Northwestern. Journalism is going through an “unpleasant” revolution, he said — but argued that the demise of mainstream media may be exaggerated.
Lehrer is a guy usually worth listening to, imo.
Hat tip to Press Notes from the Society of Professional Journalists
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