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David Cohn on journalism as art & wandering through the desert

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Why is it that you can go to many metropolitan areas in America and find an opera company that's thriving but a newspaper that's collapsing? One possible answer: subsidies. This roundtable took on the important question about what's still essential for journalists to do in our new information age. What functions of our society and economy still need the attention of professional journalists because they can't or won't be done any other way? We then looked hard at possible models for how that work can be financially supported - starting with subsidies, but including other big ideas for reinvention as well. Check out the recap at http://reinventors.net/roundtables/reinvent-journalism/ Reinventors is a series of virtual roundtables about how to fundamentally reinvent many of our 20th-century systems to work in the new realities of our 21st-century world. Each week we take on a new topic in our inaugural project to Reinvent America. Check out www.reinventors.net to learn more.

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David Cohn on journalism as art & wandering through the desert

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