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# Digital Journalism: The Time For Talk Is Done
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2008/09/digital_journalism_the_time_fo/
- Published: 2008-09-24T17:22:05.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:18:54.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: digital journalism, Journalism, Journalists, Publishing, web publishing

I think – and I’ve heard many others echo the same thought back to me –  
that we have to stop talking about whether these tools are useful  
to journalists, and start using them to prove that they are.

The  
danger we’re in right now is that many of the people who are most  
conversant with these tools, and who are the biggest evangelists, for  
them end up getting pulled away from the reporting positions into  
central development functions. They stop doing, and start encouraging  
others to do. But I think we need more leading by example. And we need  
better documentation of good journalism done with new tools. And we  
need to find better ways of sharing knowledge of how to use these tools  
between journalists.

Let’s see if we can’t make the next six months the period when journalism really gets to grips with these new tools.