Take a look at this link . It shows an online newspaper, ProPublica, which has just won the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious journalism prize awarded each year in the U.S. by Columbia University. The peculiarity is that ProPublica is a non-profit newspaper, which is: was funded three years ago by two American philanthropists Herbert and Marion Sandler, and puts their investigations free of charge to other newspapers. The prize was awarded to ProPublica thanks to a survey conducted by journalist Sheri Fink on what happened in New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005: operating rooms were flooded, there was no electricity, patients could not be cured. So doctors, unable to evacuate the wounded, they decided to practice some of them lethal injections. A service took two years of work that reveals a tragic truth on which other newspapers were not willing or able to investigate. It was released on August 30 by the New York Times thus allowing ProPublica become the first new media to win the Pulitzer.
This will be the fate of journalism? Carve out spaces of autonomy in a landscape of general approval? Who knows? much depends on the ability of journalists to believe fully in its mission, which is to express an original story and to highlight the reality that remnants of other colleagues, perhaps, not see. Meanwhile, arrives in Italy a new practice, journalism, on-demand: on-it.it www.digi users can suggest an investigation, preparing them and then checks the validity of the fundraising part of all those who visit the site. Once the budget is carried out the investigation. Experiences like this already in the U.S. results as it is symptomatic that are coming here too: Dig-it is still a niche magazine but it shows how readers perceive the need a true journalism, aimed at finding a truth that can not be said objective but at least argued with field data and verifiable. An independent journalism that focuses on the readers' interest.
The new media are changing journalism, opening spaces for conversation with people who may increasingly determine the morphology of the text proposed themes, complement the narrative journalism with their comments, they can become a reporter in the sign of the so-called citizen journalism . Asking journalists to an extra strain on the profession: that of remaining players at the increasingly demanding, active and competent.
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