More on the Atlantic’s Scientology Debacle…

The always thoughtful Dan Gillmor weighs in, underscoring just how much work digital journalism has to do when it comes to transparency and independence…

The rub:

Every day, it seems, we see traditional boundaries – which were always less rigid or tall than journalists pretended – being breached by the old guard, who’ve been panicked by the revenue implosion of the past decade. Many of the new players, especially in the social part of the media ecosystem, have jettisoned the traditional tactics almost entirely.

Read it here.

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