Tech Crunch editor Mike Arrington said sites like Digg are going to fundamentally change the way news is consumed by consumers even more than blogs are – and transform journalists’ jobs in the process as well.
Tech Crunch editor Mike Arrington said sites like Digg are going to fundamentally change the way news is consumed by consumers even more than blogs are – and transform journalists’ jobs in the process as well.
“People are more and more realizing that editors aren’t necessarily the best ones to be filtering what’s the most important news,” he said at a panel on”User-Generated Content and Trends for 2007″ at the Online News Association conference.
He predicts there will be a fundamental split between the news gatherers and the news filterers, and that people will turn to one type of site, like Digg, to filter the news, and just use to places like The New York Times and Reuters for the actual information. As a result, he thinks the jobs of journalists will fundamentally change to focus primarily on the news gathering.
