Harvard University has an ongoing project, RIPTIDE, which aims to bring together the testimonies of some of the most important directors, editors and journalists to explain the changes in this profession.

Part of the objective of this initiative of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, is to explain when and how the prominence of the Hearsts, the Pulitzers, the Sulzberger, the Grahams, the Chandlers, the Coxes, and other families responsible for the news business, was exceeded by Gates, Page and Brin and Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Case, and Jobs.

Three veterans of journalism and the media in the United States, John Huey, Martin Nisenholtz, and Paul Sagan interviewed dozens of people who played important roles in the intersection of media and technology.

“Riptide is the result: more than 50 hours of video interviews and a narrative essay that traces the evolution of digital news from early experiments to today. It’s what really happened to the news business“, says the introduction of this project.

Source: Nieman Lab