The transcript of the inteview with Nick Davies and his commentary on the state of mass media publications can be found here. It is an interesting review on the state of journalism and will be used in commentary of our final report, in relation to current and future trends.
Nick Davies, you say journalism is in a bad state. What are the symptoms?
NICK DAVIES, JOURNALIST & AUTHOR: At its heart what's happened is that big corporations have taken over newspapers which used to be owned by small family firms and they've injected the logic of commercialism into newsrooms and that logic has overwhelmed the logic of journalism.
The big structural sign of that is that all across the developed world these new corporate owners of the newsrooms have cut editorial staff at the same time as they've increased the output of those staff. All those masses of extra supplements that newspapers now produce.
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