CNBC’s Mathisen: Never been a better time to be a business journalist

There has never been a better time to be a business journalist, CNBC anchor Tyler Mathisen said last week to a group in New York.

A story on the Sageworks Institute site states, “The co-anchor of CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ and ‘Nightly Business Report’ told more than 100 journalists at an event hosted by Sageworks Institute that monumental changes in the way journalists report and distribute their work translate into new opportunities. ‘There are more voices out there,’ he said at the Cornell Club in New York. ‘Everyone can find a way to have their voice heard.’

“Because distribution of business news has become more fractionalized, there are many more outlets for distributing journalists’ work, and reporters and editors today need not be associated with traditional, major media properties. The journalist and the consumer of business news are closer than they have ever been before as a result of the explosion in recent years of enterprising and viable outlets for business journalism, many of which are digital, he noted.

“This more direct path to the audience than allowed under the traditional model involving big intermediaries/traditional gatekeepers can result in a greater amount of high quality reporting, he said.

“‘Everybody can be a publisher, so there are a lot of opportunities for people like you and others to generate content,’ he said. He acknowledged that journalists have to deal with increased pressure to favor content volume over quality – an issue made more pressing by the removal in recent years of layers of editors who would check facts and improving writing.”

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