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We're Drowning, Right?... Accountability Journalism in the Digital Age

Gates Cambridge Scholars | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK Tech
Gates Cambridge Scholars

Many felt the financial crisis of 2008 would bring a final death to mainstream news enterprises in developed media markets. They feared this would leave citizens in the hands of "pajama"-clad bloggers. "The Internet" was a threat to accountability journalism and its outcomes, which so many of us valued as integral to democracy. Except the story didn't play out that way.