All the news that’s NOT fit to print

1. All the news that’s NOT fit to print Jill Armstrong

10. Putting micropayments on news is like putting tollbooths on an open ocean. Internet users, awash in a sea of information, will avoid new barriers by navigating around them. --Marshall W. Van Alstyne, professor at Boston University and research scholar at M.I.T.

12. Civic Engagement • Interaction with news as a teen is an important indicator of future civic engagement. In looking at adults who volunteer, donate and vote, research has shown that there is a marked difference in participation if they interacted with news as teens.

14. The newspaper provides a valuable historic record. We may not be leaving the same record for future historians.

15. Serendipity • Looking for something, finding something else, and realizing that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs that what you thought you were looking for.

16. Increased Polarization • The Editorial and Op Ed pages give a range of viewpoints. • Searches, RSS feeds and personalized pages reinforce already-held points of view.

18. The Blogosphere / Community Journalism • Lack of editorial oversight. • Students are being overwhelmed with information of questionable validity. • Research skills and critical thinking are more important than ever.

19. Fewer newspapers can afford Investigative Journalism

20. It’s hard to pick up a newspaper and ignore that there is a front page, but with the Internet it is easy to play games or conduct a search without seeing news. On the Internet you have to make a deliberate choice to go somewhere and we are finding that young people are not making an appointment with news. -- Thomas Patterson, a professor of government and the press at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

21. Journalists are being targeted in Egypt and other places with restrictive governments

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