Jay Rosen: It’s wrong to say that every journalist has to become a technologist, but…

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“They have to come to terms with the power shift,” says Jay Rosen. “They have to make use of new tools that give them more power, and open up creativity. And they have to create a more open professional culture, because their world is going to be disrupted again and again.” The PressThink blogger and NYU prof also tells Sophie Roell:
* Much more of the world is within reach of the working journalist today. But it’s still important to hit the streets, see for yourself and talk to people face to face.
* One of the big unsolved – but not necessarily unsolvable – problems in the new pro-am [professional-amateur] system is that it does not come to us with a working reputation system. So yes, “Who are these people?” is a problem. Anonymity is a problem. The flood of garbage is a problem.