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Why I love the new journalism

Why I love the new journalism? The answer is simple. Because everything is possible! Every single thing!

We are currently in a time of change. The web is making things possible, which before people only could dream of. And in the same time professional equipment is getting cheaper and easier to understand.


Newspapers are dead!

Everyone that is thinking clear, knows the printed press will disappear. Investors take out their money and readers get rid of their over-priced subscription.
Newspapers seem to work in an old fashion way. They employ 200 journalists, working day and night, but in the end producing less than a well organized web news organisation with 20 [...]


And another newspaper dies

Last week Hearst Corporation announced that it has two options for The San Francisco Chronicle: Close or sell. Yes CLOSE or SELL.
The company just wants to get rid of the newspaper. Why? Because they lose money. A lot of money. Last year: 50 million dollar!
Yesterday another newspaper died. The Rocky Mountain News printed it last [...]


Can you quote from someone’s Twitter?

Yes, but not when somebody has a locked account. That would be my only consideration as a journalist.
If someone sends out a tweet, it’s public, which means you can use it in an article. I was agreed on this by some journalists, and Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Minister. He added that he would [...]