PressThink : Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 22 Feb, 2010A blog about journalism and its ordeals, PressThink has been around since September 2003. Created by Jay Rosen, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression.
From the intro : We need to keep the press from being absorbed into The Media. This means keeping the word press, which is antiquated. But included under its modern umbrella should be all who do the serious work in journalism, regardless of the technology used. The people who will invent the next press in America--and who are doing it now online--continue an experiment at least 250 years old. It has a powerful social history and political legend attached...