Content Curation and Aggregation: the Future for News?
We would like to share this video with you of a talk on the future of news and newspapers between two futurists Rob Dawson and Gerd Leonhard .
Some of you may have also come across Ross Dawson's much debated Newspaper Extinction Timeline
Ross also sumarizes the key points from the discussion in a blog post here .
In this fascinating discussion it is interesting to see that Dawson and Leonhard conclude that there is a bright future for news in terms of both demand and the propensity for consumers to pay for it whilst the transition to a new and undefined ecosystem will be both painful and challenging.
It is also clear that content curation and content aggregation are going to continue to be key in the new ecosystem that is evloving.
