Lost Media, Found Media

Columbia Journalism Review by Alissa Quart | May. 21, 2008 (Special Report)

Snapshots from the future of writing

To be a Found Media journalist or pundit, one need not be elite, expert, or trained; one must simply produce punchy intellectual property that is in conversation with groups of other citizens. Found Media-ites don't tend to go to editors for approval, but rather to their readers and to their blog community. In many cases, they disdain the old models, particularly newspapers, which they see as having calcified over the decades, and, according to generally ... Full Story »

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by Dan Fejes - Oct. 1, 2008

The "Lost Media/Found Media" distinction compares narrative or investigative pieces in large outlets with online sites that do some combination of aggregation and brief commentary. I think that neglects the much larger issue of large outlets abandonment of narrative & investigative journalism. Even the Walter Reed story mentioned as an example was first reported in Salon.com. In that sense the author misses the larger picture: Long form journalism is already a thing of the past in newspapers and TV. Magazines will carry the tradition on, though. Christopher Ketcham's "Main Core" article from this month's Radar is a great example.