A stuffy article that suffers from j-school myopia. Alissa Quart's major error in this story is categorizing most "Found Media" creators as young. In my "found media" travels, I've become acquainted with many Found Media creators--a large majority of them are well over 40 (Gordon Joseloff of Westport Now comes to mind, as well as Jon Weber of New West-I could go on...) Further, Quart does not mention the numbers of non-journalists who are creating all sorts of "found media" every ... More »

An excellent story,highly recommended for people over 40. Informative, well written, a good example itself of the "Lost media".

The "Lost Media/Found Media" distinction compares narrative or investigative pieces in large outlets with online sites that do some combination of aggregation and brief commentary. I think that neglects the much larger issue of large outlets abandonment of narrative & investigative journalism. Even the Walter Reed story mentioned as an example was first reported in Salon.com. In that sense the author misses the larger picture: Long form journalism is already a thing of the past in ... More »

The author sets up the same young v. old, new media vs. traditional media debate I've heard before. I'm pretty tired of it.