What awaits the media in 2010?

An employee of the Niymanov Laboratory of Journalism at Harvard University published an article in which he is trying to summarize the recent development of journalism and media in connection with the Internet and give a forecast for 2010. There is no sense to translate it entirely; I will give only postulates so that you can understand the state of affairs in the USA in this industry.

What is considered a past stage?

1. Confrontation between journalists and bloggers is over. Separate skirmishes will still take place, but as a whole, they can already be ignored.
2. Some information will cease to be free. But this money is hardly enough to save the old media. People will pay either for what they know is very important, or for the fact that nowhere else to find out.
3. More news will be produced by non-institutionalized organizations. What exactly is not yet clear, but it will be something small, nimble, niche. (See this )

What issues will we face in 2010?

1. What will be the policy? If the old media will disappear and / or break, how will the policy, public administration change? Someone will have to play the role of former media. Next year will have to formulate answers to this question.
2. How will the new state of affairs be regulated in legal terms? Does the state equate bloggers with journalists? If equates, how will control? If he does not equate, and the former media does not survive, then who will represent the “fourth estate”?
3. What will be the media ecosystem? Is there a future for hyper-local projects of the current media giants? Or is success waiting for civic media? Perhaps the network will be built in some other way.
4. What will become a journalistic education? What will be taught in the faculties of journalism?
5. Will there be no need for journalism at all? With the advent of the semantic web, with the advent of complex automatic algorithms , will we need some kind of “human spacers” between the source of information and us?