Convergence- where is it taking the news?

Since the Internet began to pick up steam in the late 1990s, news gathering, production and dissemination began to change in ways unimaginable by older generations. The Net has been and will be, it seems indefinitely, a platform where all media - film, TV, radio, music, and print- converge.

Current discussion deliberates on how this value-added medium will affect media consumption and jobs. Creative Editing quotes Linda Grist Cunningham,"chair of an ASNE committee that conducted a survey of copy editors: As the literacy skills of even our better writers decline and as the demands of technology complicate our production schedules, editors will be forced to pay attention to the needs of copy editors if we are to improve our newspapers”(Bowles & Borden, 2011, p.5). 

What does this suggest? Hasn't technology facilitated tools to research, bookmark, organize content, share, fact check, cite, revise, correct, post, illustrate, design, present, expand, clarify, and the like. Or have the "apps" stunted our abilities? 

I am optimistic in our ability to maximize the reality and promise of convergence. After all, published content is still produced by hand, not generated by an avatar. What about you?


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