How Tech’s Giants Want to Re-invent Journalism
Posted: 4/26/2012 | By: Robert Andrews | paidContent
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organizations.
But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next…
First, the disclosures: “We’re not a news company,” Google’s head of news products and Google+ programming Richard Gingras told media executives at the Paley Center’s international council of media executives in Madrid on Thursday. “We’re a platform,” Facebook’s journalism manager Vadim Lavrusik duly followed.
But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next…
First, the disclosures: “We’re not a news company,” Google’s head of news products and Google+ programming Richard Gingras told media executives at the Paley Center’s international council of media executives in Madrid on Thursday. “We’re a platform,” Facebook’s journalism manager Vadim Lavrusik duly followed.