Watch out for websites taking on their own life. Be prepared to learn new things. This was the advice Diane Dragan, Online executive editor of Every Day Rachel Ray gave to journalism students at New York University while discussing the possibilities of a new digital age.
Dragan, who has been working online for more than 10 years, has seen the digital age evolve since its birth with the dot-com boom. And despite the fact Reader's Digest recently cut 8% of its workforce, they remain optimistic about the need for professional journalism, Dragan said.
“People equate online with putting up anything you want,” she said. “But this stuff still needs some editing.” This need for editors and a journalistic eye is temporarily reassuring to journalists that are worried about the death of print journalism.
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Still, amateurs are on the rise as the digital age is ushering in non-professionals, looking to get the reader involved and to give readers space to express themselves.
Dragan said that while many publications will have to succumb to financial pressures and move online, traditional journalism will never go away. “People coming in with good ideas are always going to be valuable,” she said. Dragan suggests changes thatengage the reader by giving them a place to voice opinions and pitch ideas, will prevail. In a time of new ideas and alternative models, it is Dragan’s belief, she said, that people will never be outdated.
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