The technology challenge. Today, digital technology has given a printing press to everyone with access to a laptop and broadband Internet. New digital devices, in essence, have made the printing press both expensive and obsolete. The Next Newsroom builds its newsgathering operations around the use of lower cost digital technologies and devices. Which devices should be standard-issue in the Next Newsroom, what will the cost, and how will citizens and professionals learn to use them? What are the appropriate "output devices" for the work of the healthy journalist? Weekly print? Daily print? Web text? Video? Audio? Multimedia partnerships?
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