I think that journalism is going to continue on forever, but will change over time. I don't think that journalism can end because of my definition of journalism. I believe that journalism is communication between two or more people. With that definition, communication would have to end for journalism to end. That is impossible.
Even though journalism won't end, it can still change and evolve. This is obviously already happening. The difference between journalism in my generation and 50 years ago is huge. So much more of journalism is online than ever before. Soon nearly everything will be.
Coming up with the idea for newapp was very difficult for one main reason. This is an invention for the future, but we don't know what will be most appealing to people, even 6 months from now. We didn't know much about what the future, but we did guess a few things. We assumed that we would evolve over time and be able to do more things. However, we seemed to go off of the assumption that people would still have the same interests and like the same things.
People are lazy. A successful source of news will understand this and adapt to this. They will have short and to the point news. We tried to make this happen by having people submit their own things. They would only write what they would want to read.
Another reason we have submissions by the public is because we think that a main part of journalism is communication and communication isn't a one way street. That was one of the most important parts of our project and what we decided to focus on.
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