Jay Rosen On Wikileaks and the Hybridization of News Gathering

As you’ve undoubtedly heard, the talk of the journalism world this past week has been WikiLeaks’ release of tens of thousands of classified documents relating to the Afghan war. Some have heralded the release as the next nail in the coffin of major newspapers. But the reality is more complicated than that, and more optimistic as far as newspapers are concerned. After all, WikiLeaks brought the New York Times, Der Spiegel and The Guardian in on their scoop for a reason.