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In a world of digital media in which anyone can be a publisher, in which there are few if any technological or financial barriers to producing and disseminating information, in which concrete and finite media products such as a newspaper or a television news broadcast have been replaced by an amorphous and constantly changing agglomeration of billions of seamlessly interconnected bits*where does the journalist fit in? Why do we need such a person, and what purpose does he or she serve? Is there any future at all for what we know as journalism?