20 Years of Tech Journalism
summary
Journalism starts as hobbyist reporting and becomes mainstream but the practice shifts: chasing “most emailed” metrics and instant aggregation often replaces original reporting. Examples: four months of work to break the Google self‑driving car story, Nest embargo tensions over a smart smoke detector, the viral but unreported Foldscope paper microscope, and a $1,795 golf cart that follows its owner alongside Mercedes’ traffic‑jam assist — concrete signs that access, sourcing and two‑way attribution matter now.
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