The revolutionary battle for journalism's future

I've stood back from the debate raging among US journalists sparked by Columbia Journalism School's dean, Nicholas Lemann. But his decision to cut the Columbia Journalism Review's online staff in favour of investing the savings in the CJR's print magazine deserves attention. It is a bizarre move, and this posting by Jeff Jarvis contains all the essential links. Jarvis versus Lemann is a dispute that goes to the heart of the debate about the future of journalism, in terms of transmission, methodology and content. Unsurprisingly, I'm with Jarvis. He probably won't thank me for the simile, but we are talking about a revolution, so I can't help but see him as the Bolshevik and Lemann as the Menshevik. And Jeff's slogan? All power to citizen journalists! (Via BuzzMachine)