Journo stuff I’ve collected on 12/29/2013

• Call me an optimist, but the future of journalism isn’t bleak | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | theguardian.com

  tags: journalism start-up

  • What’s going on? Traditional newspapers and broadcasters seem to believe that they can shrink their way to prosperity. Online, a viral-or-die mindset dominates a new generation of traffic-grubbing enterprises that seem, despite assurances to the contrary, indifferent to being right or wrong as long as the traffic is there.

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