by: Frederic Filloux | The Guardian

The survival of quality news calls for a new approach to writing and reporting. Inspiration could come from blogging and magazine storytelling and also bring back memories of the 70s new journalism movement.

News reporting is aging badly. Legacy newsrooms style books look stuck in a last century formalism (I was tempted to write "formalin"). Take a newspaper, print or online. When it comes news reporting, you see the same old structure dating back to the Fifties or even earlier.