ARE JOURNALISTS STILL IN DEMAND?
by Tom Choy Vancouver, BC I spotted Wolf Blitzer on CNN donning this teeshirt that shouts "THE WORLD NEEDS JOURNALISTS," and it sort of piqued my interest. Is there a shortage of journalists? Is the demand for journalists vanishing? Hossein Derakshan, a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab and a research fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center said "the news is dying, but journalism will not--and should not." I used to have NewYork Times subscription but with the advent and shall we say, saturation of social media, from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram, one's sources of news can be obtained without spending hundreds of dollars. The business model of major news outlets like New York Times, Washington Post a...