PaidContent's Rafat Ali: Journalists Must Join the Digital

Rafat Ali has made huge strides in bootstrapping his four year-old PaidContent into the "must read" for the entire digital media industry. When I caught up with the pioneering journalist this week in Manhattan, I asked him how he has succeeded in ways that traditional media hasn't.

He was clear that journalists are the greatest impediment to media companies embracing digital communications tools such as podcasts, vlogs. He says many are stuck in a comfortable mindset and resistant to change. But he does acknowledge that it's often not the journalists who are the roadblocks, but the companies themselves. He says that many journalists want to be involved with multi-media news gathering but are

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[netgemiplayer]

so what if we record stuff off TV and radio isn't. that illegal too?