"We’re experiencing a diaspora of journalism," Nicco Mele writes in the Spring Nieman Reports. Everyone knows the future of news lies with small media. But who inherits big media's power to shape the public sphere? "The front page of a newspaper was a judgment about what was important to the public, what we should think about, what we should discuss. But now, the unbundling of content has led to the unbundling of audience … There is no shared public experience."
