Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s Senior Adviser to...

Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s Senior Adviser to the President, speaks about the important digital tools that will shape the future of journalism.

To improve print, we must think digital. We need to use the new tools, all of us, even and especially the reporters on the front lines, to better report the news in the world’s newspapers.

Digital tools make print reporters a hundred times more readable and relevant than they were in the last century. The editors at this conference are trying to do powerful things – you really need to use the most powerful tools you can.

We hear a lot about the digital delivery of news. Digital delivery is great: it allows multimedia, saves money, gives you infinite space and instant timing.

But I think digital journalism — the digitization of the news process between the community and the newsroom — is just as important as digitization from the newsroom to the delivery of the news to the community.

Digital journalism engages your newsroom and community to improve the content of journalism.

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