Old Growth Media and the Future of News:

Fascinating speech entitled Old Growth Media and the Future of News: (From StevenBerlinJohnson.com
http://tinyurl.com/bq2tu8 and then the update to the speech written recently:

An excerpt: today’s media is in fact much closer to a real-world ecosystem in the way it circulates information than it is like the old industrial, top-down models of mass media. It’s a much more diverse and interconnected world, a system of flows and feeds – completely different from an assembly line. That complexity is what makes it so interesting, of course, but also what makes it so hard to predict what it’s going to look like in five or ten years.