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By Angela Morris (Quill, Spring 2019)
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency could add new revenue streams for journalism. Or perhaps they are nothing more than distractions from the industry’s drastic problems.
It depends who you ask.
Proponents say that blockchain technology and cryptocurrency could open a new revenue stream for journalism, create permanence of news archives and give readers a new way to engage with news and journalists.
On the other side, there’s doubt whether the technology can solve any of the dire problems the industry has faced with the rise of the internet and siphoning of ad revenue.
Read the rest of this story in Quill’s Spring 2019 issue.
