News selectivity
If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people?
If a new crop of user-news sites—and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites—are any indication, the news agenda will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources, according to a new study.
Those are the first two paragraphs of a new study by the esteemed Project for Excellence in Journalism.
It's interesting, but is this news to anyone? Isn't that what the Web allows us to do? Aren't newspaper audience and Web audiences different?
As newspapers focus more and more on local news -- both in paper and on their Web sites -- I would expect the audience selections to diverge even more. I don't know that this is good or bad. It just is.