This being part of the Car­ni­val of Journ­al­ism (and late), ring­mas­ter Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and inter­na­tional legal sys­tems to help the digital age, and espe­cially journ­al­ism in the digital age, flourish?

At the risk of mak­ing myself unpop­u­lar, in our own digital realm — journ­al­ism — many of the oppor­tun­it­ies offered by digital con­tent have been held back by cross media own­er­ship restric­tions. When it comes to the media even a mogul like Rupert Mur­doch had to switch nation­al­ity to own TV sta­tions in the US. Con­tinue read­ing →