It should come as no surprise that online journalists are more optimistic about the future of news than their counterparts in traditional media outlets.
But this optimism is tempered with a healthy dose of concerns about where journalism is going, according to the survey (PDF) of select members of the Online News Association (ONA) produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The online professionals believe that the Internet is changing the fundamental values of journalism, but more often than not for the worse. Still, they are confident that online news will find a way of making money.
Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism presented the results at the NVision 2009 conference.
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