Facing shrinking readerships, redundancies and declining advertising revenue, the imminent demise of traditional print media and 'quality' journalism is being prophesied. Are we losing a vital public sphere for interrogating those in power or is a moribund media status quo getting a long overdue shake up? Milissa Deitz argues that far from ringing the death knell , the internet is in fact reinvigorating news and journalism. More democratic through participation, more immediately responsive to rapidly changing events, we increasingly go online for our news. A mediaspace composed of dedicated online journals, blogs, social networking and mobile telephony, is returning journalism to its radical and democratic roots, recreating the feisty, info...