Open Access Is The Future For Africa’s Science Media

Brains Network editor Marc Mcilhone backs open sharing in the second article on how to support online science journalism in Africa.

The physical publishing of books, newspapers and magazines is as outdated as the concept of notebook journalism represented by Clark Kent — instead of Superman giving us our daily dose of news, we are now just as likely to receive it online from “citizen journalists” with no formal training.

The role of the journalist is changing, along with what is deemed journalism. The advent of online news aggregators and changing methods of consuming news have left traditional print media in a fight for survival.

So is traditional journalism, including science journalism, doomed, or is this an inevitable evolution in how information is processed and shared?