Wednesday, 6 May 2009  Emily Bell on The Future of Journalism
[UPDATE You can now read Emily's own account of her lecture
here.]  Last night I was lucky enough to attend a free lecture
given by Emily Bell, head of digital content at Guardian News
and Media, at University College Falmouth, where Emily has just
been appointed visiting lecturer professor to the college's
increasingly highly-regarded media degree courses.  Emily's
topic was Journalism Ten Years From Now - a massively
contentious topic as advertising revenues and print circulations
plummet, editorial staffs shrink, new digital and social media
platforms spring up everywhere and knowledgeable amateurs with
blogs provide an increasing number of alternative, authoritative
information sources.  Unlike net-culture visionary Clay Shirky,
though, Emily doesn't think that print journalism has no future.
Print will remain an important part of reaching the audience -
but it will not be the primary conduit for journalism in ten
years' time. Instead, going b