Google Is Good For Journalism

Marissa Mayer testified before Sen. John Kerry’s committee hearing “The Future Of Journalism” yesterday. As Mayer is VP of Search and User Experience at Google, it’s no surprise that she’s a Google fan. But she’s also co-chair of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, so she definitely knows what she’s talking about.

Her conclusion? News is becoming “atomized”—a fancy way of saying that just as people listen to songs instead of albums, now we read articles instead of full newspapers.

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