Digg is never going to take place of NYTimes or any other newspaper. NYTimes, Guardian or any other newspaper are not fearing digg or digg like clones. The real shot could be from a stong organization which supports Citizen Journalism, or which could catalyze the process of turning audience, readers into reporters.

OhMyNews could be one organization, but it needs to move itself long way before achieving that.

It was really great! By the way, thanks for sharing this information.

>>OhMyNews could be one organization, but it needs to move itself long way before achieving that.

Bullseye... I fully agree with you Ankit. The traditional media is fearing new media, but not the mashups like Digg or Google News, something more which coul dreplace the expensive reporters out there. Digg is not making news, its just helping search the news.

Digg is a tool, a tool in the hand of new media, not the new media.

I have heard enough of bullshit about New Media. I just hope you guys don`t have a bubble burst very soon.

Anthony D, if you want to replace the expensive reporters, then keep yourself ready for novices churning out rubbish stories. I have seen similar claims in my carrer history for quiet a long time.

There are good reporters, average ones and some that are immature and/or incompetent. The same goes for citizen journalists. In the end, nobody is going to eat anyone else’s lunch on the basis of being a part of the new media or the old one. That’s not how it works. People want quality information delivered in a timely manner as well as unique perspectives. If you can deliver that as a blogger, you’re good to go. If you can deliver that as an old media personality, even then you’ll find a loyal audience. Quality rules, and nothing else does.

Yeah, but having said that, the one significant advantage of the old media is that they are very often directly in touch with news makers, and as such are more likely to break news, whereas the blogosphere is more about referencing as well as commenting on the news rather than breaking it. On a related note, old media journalists do not have the same degree of freedom as citizen journalists do, insofar as expressing their opinions are concerned.

It is these fundamental differences that in some way point to a symbiotic relationship between the new and the old media, in the long run.

Well Said Saurab.
>>Yeah, but having said that, the one significant advantage of the old media is that they are very often directly in touch with news makers, and as such are more likely to break news, whereas the blogosphere is more about referencing as well as commenting on the news rather than breaking it.

Though I don`t agree fully on this with you. New media is more likely to get in touch with newsmakers, and with coming times the popularity and reach of new media is expanding very rapidly, newsmakers will themselves becomes the reporters and sometimes audience too. The boundary between newsmakers, reporters and readers is getting blurred day by day.