Robi Ganguly’s Big Ideas

Valeria Maltoni, over on her Conversation Agent blog, conducts an awesome interview with the Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek.com over here:

“Meet the (New Media) Editor — John Byrne, BusinessWeek”

Excellent questions, as usual, from Valeria, but I was really impressed by John’s answers. The guy is thoughtful and he gets it – he understands the importance of the conversation that goes on around journalism. He also really understands the importance of the permanence that the digital medium provides and says:

The aha for me is that the most permanent and influential of all journalism today is, in fact, digital. Unlike the journalism in a magazine or newspaper that gets thrown away, digital journalism is a permanent searchable record. You can access it anywhere around the globe at anytime, whether you are at home or work, in an airport lounge in Warsaw or a cafe in Bangalore. Unlike print, it doesn’t disappear with the garbage. You can’t line a bird cage with it. Instead, digital journalism lives on forever.

Wow. Sometimes I take this progress for granted. But it wasn’t that long ago that I was hearing that the online medium cheapened journalism and content. I LOVE how much people’s perceptions are changing.

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