Experts Wary of ‘Platforms as Publishers’

“He’s moved over to the dark side,” announced journalist David Clinch, explaining why he was moderating one of today’s panels at the Columbia Journalism School in place of a former colleague who recently took a senior role at Twitter and therefore recused himself from a discussion of “Platforms as Publishers.”

Clinch’s phrasing was playful, of course, but the joke only landed because of the serious, persistent tension between “Journalism + Silicon Valley,” as the all-day event hosted by Columbia’s Tow Center was called.