A great conversation on the new news system

Spend some quality time with this: A five-part video of NYU professors Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky interviewing each other about what’s happening to news.

Total runtime is about 52 minutes, broken into five segments. It’s well worth the time.

Part 1: Shirky explains ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’

Part 2: It’s not just the business model

Part 3: Understanding ‘citizen journalism’

Part 4: On falling reader confidence

Part 5: Why we study media