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Tom Curley Citizen journalism has a positive effect on news reporting. "Tremendous opportunity for people and content."

Evidence approved (3/19/2008 5:02:14 PM)

"Tremendous opportunity for people and content."

Businessandmedia.org:  


Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley believes bloggers should have the same entitlements as journalists.

As for the profession of journalism – Curley didn’t think it was going to be dead with the evolution of the online media age and if anything, it provided more opportunities.

 

“This is a tremendous opportunity for people and content,” Curley said. “And this is especially a good opportunity for those in journalism. The journalist has not and will not be replaced. They cannot be replaced. Nothing has come along today to replace the journalist. There are not journalists in any quantity at these new media organizations. They are still living on what it is we do. I just think we need to understand that we cannot ignore a 200-year change in technology. So, we can’t just be so buried in the sand that we ignore different ways of distribution.”