Weymouth, 'Wash Post' Publisher. Tells J-School Grads There's 'No Old vs. New Media'

By: E&P Staff Publisher Katharine Weymouth of The Washington Post spoke about the need for newspapers to stay focused on the ethics and tools of journalism amid the growing technology of the future during her commencement address to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

"People have tried to paint the shift that technology has brought about as a fight between new and old media. That is the exact wrong way to look at it. I would posit that there is no old and new media. There is good journalism and new tools that are bringing that journalism alive in ways that it has never been before," Weymouth stated in the speech last Saturday. "Good journalism that is enhanced by having readers and users who can participate in the conversation and push it farther. It is no longer just a one-way conversation. It is no longer journalists just telling people what has happened and how to interpret it. It is now a conversation - and often a conversation on multiple platforms with multiple players."

Her entire address can be found here.