“There’s No Silver Bullet Anymore”

 

I think the institutions that have a real commitment to journalism understand that there is a real future of journalism in interactive news and in interactive storytelling and multimedia storytelling. There’s no silver bullet anymore. There’s no longer just an article, or there’s no longer just a news report on television at 6 p.m. or just the radio in the evenings. There’s a whole bunch of different ways that people are consuming their news nowadays. That’s as affected by technology as it affected by the news and people.

From here. There’s something about that “there’s no longer just an article” that sticks with me. In an interactive media world, is there such a thing as a news story, or is everything “news cycles” these days? If it’s the latter, what is the purposes of being a writer, exactly?

 

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