John Stackhouse

“Lastly, for journalists, the challenge ahead is to be polymaths, able to study and work with audiences, manage active databases, curate other content, and work closely with digital engineers and designers to make it all sing. They will need to be more entrepreneurial in their work arrangements, allowing the collective agreements that once ensured jobs for life to morph into new deals that reward journalists for their output as well as their input, and allow their news organizations to move staff more quickly when the market changes.”
― John Stackhouse, Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution

“You can do all the reporting in the world, and it won’t matter if you can’t defend it,” he said. Serious journalism relied on legal principles—free speech and the media’s right to protect sources for the greater good—that journalists and their readers should never take for granted.”
― John Stackhouse, Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution