Tina Brown: "What Matters Is the Journalism"

The Daily Beast's Tina Brown, former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair says the current emphasis on delivery systems misses the point of the media crisis. What is essential, she told the Chicago Tribune's Phil Rosenthal, is that we focus on content, not how we get it. We risk the loss of journalistic standards, she says, because professional journalists might have to do their media work while also holding a job that actually pays them a living wage. She calls this "gig journalism." And the professionals who pull media through this transitional period and into the future must know—and master—digital communications. Read the entire interview.