News industry urged to develop proactive theories of change for navigating technological disruption
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Ben Werdmuller
Summary
Gina Chua argues that the news industry needs to move beyond treating technology as an external force that happens to it, and instead develop proactive "theories of change" to imagine and shape the future of journalism. The article calls for news organizations to actively envision what might come next rather than passively reacting to technological disruptions.
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· 3 pulledNews tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid.
To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.
Gina Chua is one of the people in news who is doing the most to push the conversation forward and prepare the industry for the future.
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