Digital Media Come of Age | Media Re:public

Six challenges stand out among the numerous obstacles to achieving this best possible news media environment:

** Under pressure from falling revenues and the disruption of their business model, traditional media outlets are reducing and shifting the scope of their original reporting.

** Web-native media entities are not addressing all of the crucial reporting gaps left by traditional media. Current structures and mechanisms do not provide sufficient incentives for them to do so.

** In the changing media environment, news consumers risk relying on news sources that are neither credible nor comprehensive.

** Participation in the online media space is not evenly distributed; some populations and ideas remain underrepresented.

** There are elements of critically important journalism that have not yet found reliable sustainability models in the online media environment.

** Efforts to understand and address these issues are limited by a lack of solid empirical evidence, and must rely instead on incomplete information, anecdotes, and intuition.

Source: Media Re:public

Hat tip: Ethan Z.

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