This IS new journalism

We need to be certain that what we are creating in online journalism is a new model.  And this is exactly what makes the future of the new medium exciting – “we” are creating it.  The collective “You”, who were named TIME Magazine’s People of the Year for the explosion in interactive, community-based web content.  The accessible technology and resources required to now put audio, video or text online makes every single person a potential media contributor.  It’s not the quality, the ethics, or the substance that is suffering, as some may argue – it’s just presenting it in a new way that can engage people who are growing up in a new world.  

From Michael Rosenblum:

Web video is not about television. And web journalism is not about text alone. It is about something new and exciting … the creation of a new medium, a new way of speaking to one another.

Those who believe that the web is simply a place to post conventional TV news stories or TV shows cannot be blamed too much. They are simply the heirs to an old and venerable tradition in the world of invention: recording the last words of the dying.

Using the medium effectively will require imagination.  If old-school TV and print styles are forced on the web they may as well not be there.  If they’re being forced on the web because people can’t comprehend their usefulness in any form of expression other than the traditional one, imaginative minds will not only transform journalism on the web but also capture the market.

Market is money.  Now who’s listening?