Craig Newmark Looks Into The Future of News

Craig Newmark wrote an interesting article in The Huffington Post today regarding the changing face of journalism. One important change that he highlighted was the emergence of “new display systems” which will better incorporate multimedia reporting. Newmark went on to discuss what issues news organization should be focusing on in the coming years. The problems, he says are less in the changing format of news, but with ideas such as “trust” and “curation.”

Newmark says that news organizations top priority should be to restore the public’s trust in their work which has been somewhat lost after occurrences such as the financial crises and the lead up to the war in Iraq. He goes on to argue that their problems involve not only constructive demonstration of trustworthy reporting, but also in the fact that the GOOD journalism of these times was buried by the structures of newspapers rather than highlighted.

Here’s a problem that incorporating more video content into publications may help fix. By highlighting important content with video, news organization can draw more attention to it, and therefore work towards repairing a damaged relationship with the public.