An Internet Manifesto by German journalists, bloggers
A group of 15 journalists and bloggers in Germany were industrious on our Labor Day, publishing an
Internet Manifesto: How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.
This collection of positions about the future of journalism was published on Monday in German by a group they say are “more or less known in the German new media landscape.”
An English version was published today and users have contributed Finnish and Romanian versions.
One of the authors, Janko Roettgers chimed in today with his Time to Take a Stance on the Future of Journalism. Roettgers says:
Newspaper publishers all around the world have been mounting attacks against search engines, aggregators and bloggers in recent months. Germany’s news industry has been no exception.
In many ways the Internet Manifesto is in response to that attack. It is interesting because it lets us hear new voices in the debate over how the business of journalism is changing .. and whether journalism itself is changing.
It is also interesting in its simplicity.
Key points:
The Internet is different.
The Internet is a pocket-sized media empire.
The net requires networking.
Today’s freedom of the press means freedom of opinion.
Read German? Here’s the original: Internet-Manifest
