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What Nexus?

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WHY JOURNALISM MATTERS

TO DEMOCRACY

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From the fourth...

...to the fifth estatehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT1wb8_tcYU

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Death of a newsroom

The Philadelphia’s Inquirer in 2009.The Tower of Truth

Tectonic Disruption – when news got broken

A slow decline

Cuts at jobs and facilities in the newsroom

Empty spaces

The newsroom in 2012

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...to horizontal

from vertical...

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Wars, Techs and the evolution of Journalism

• 1970 War in Vietnam

• 1990 Gulf War

• 2003 War in Iraq

• 2010 War in Afghanistan

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The War in Vietnam

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The Gulf War and the CNN effect

Impact on policy makers and government officials

Immediacy Information availability

(even the most sensitive ones) Perception affecting priorities

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The War in Iraq and embedded journalism

No honest journalist should be

willing to describe himself or

herself as “embedded”. To say

“I am an embedded journalist”

is to say “I am a government’s

propagandist”.

Noam Chomsky

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Mobil-isations

SMS...

...before SNS

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The War in Afghanistan and the rise of WikiLeaks

Traditional and new media team up. The first get access to secret documents, the latter to credibility and context.

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2013 - Citizenfour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaWhUjV96M

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Platforms vs. Publishers

Speed versus accuracy and veracity

Digital

Frankenstein

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