No one denies we now have access to immeasurably more information, and that everyone has become capable of publishing and having a public voice. But we must reflect about the possible harm the transformations we are living may bring to the quality of the whole news environment.
Many surveys show the so-called traditional newsrooms—which I like to label “stable platforms of journalistic production”—are still a major source of supply for the news environment. But with newsrooms reeling, and staffing decimated, a weakening of the stable platforms threatens to cause general informational impoverishment, a degradation of the entire information ecosystem.
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