If everyone’s a publisher, do we still need professional journalists?

(Yes, we certainly do.)

By Shawn McIntosh and Dan Perry

In the not-so-distant past, our information ecosystem was dominated by a select group of gatekeepers — major newspapers, television networks, and respected institutions — that offered us the rough draft of history. This centralized model, prevalent throughout most of the 20th century through the early 2010s, provided socie…