A picture of Neil McIntosh by Sophie Borazanian."If you break a story online, you will be rewarded and people will come back to you" said the outgoing editor of the Guardian, Neil McIntosh.
At a talk given by him at the University of Westminster, Neil spoke to the students about the growing popularity of online journalism and how this was affecting newspapers."
"They are losing a lot of jobs and cutting costs. No one is really suspecting it will close but the sales aren't doing anything great at The Independent" said Neil, while explaining how the regional newspapers were in trouble more than the national ones. Titles such as Scotsman and Herald were going to face turbulence in the near future.
McIntosh also shared with us his thoughts on what award winning journalist Nick Davies, also the author of 'Flat Earth News', had to say about the quality of journalism. He claims that journalists have so much pressure on them and as a result they have no time to concentrate on the true story itself. He also said that, jobs cuts was another reason which was going to ruin the quality of the news stories.
"The relentless impact of commercialization has seen our journalism reduced to churnalism" said Nick Davies.
Neil also added, that though online journalism is doing well, websites do not have much of an impact on the sales of newspapers.
Sharing some of his personal sentiments on leaving the Guardian to join the Wall Street Journal next year, Neil said, that Guardian was a wonderful place to work in as there is a huge amount of freedom of writing. "It is extremely hard to leave the Guardian - not many people do" said Neil.
