ABSTRACT
The patronage model, or innovations such as the Globizzle copy exchange, for online distribution can work on a local level and may replace some income for freelancers, but it is not going to work at the same scale as industrial journalism. Thousands of newspaper features, columns and opinion pieces have been written in newspapers and magazines around the world that explore the crisis in journalism and the news media. For some, the age of industrial journalism, the commercial print news industry and the broadcast model of media delivery appears to be almost over. The final shape of the new media landscape may take some time to emerge as no media form dies out suddenly. The focus on personality has devalued debates about policy and turned the Press Corp in the world’s political capitals into what some describe as ‘stenographic’ journalism, blurring the line between reporter and publicist.
