First came
Riptide, a just-released “oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the
present.” But while the project was steered by distinguished groups -- Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab -- its
"white male perspective" missed a key point, asserts Andrea Peterson. "Digital advances, particularly the spread of the Internet and the rise of blogging, gave a powerful new way for voices
marginalized in the elite journalism sphere to spread their stories." Peterson expounds on that point in this interesting post.
Read the whole story at The Washington Post »
