The media scholar, Clay Shirky,
is suggesting the accountability role of newspaper journalism is threatened. Smaller cities risk losing all but very compliant civic coverage
Newspapers are no longer able to sustain their journalism because advertisers are finding other media reliable and more affordable. We are heading into messy times, with the newspaper declines not being replaced by new media gains in short order, he said.
He told an audience at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard that consumers are becoming the new aggregators of content and audience.
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