Way New Journalism

I had the opportunity to hear Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and author of The Long Tail, speak at my company’s client summit today. One particularly interesting slide showed the top websites, making the point that blogs are right up there with the big media giants. We all know this is correct, but the way he presented it was especially effective.

It got me thinking about an article I read in 1995 (I still remember reading it) published on Hot Wired, called “The Birth of Way New Journalism,” by Joshua Quittner I have a ruffled hardcopy of this article in my files because, as an online community reporter in 1995 (when you could count the actual newspaper who were online, possibly on one hand) is rang so true. Interestingly enough it seems just as relevant today. So I wanted to point to it here, in case anyone missed it. It’s worth a read—just remember to read it as if it were 1995.

And when you're done, think about what might happen in the next 12 years. Amazing, no?

The Birth of Way New Journalism