According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in association with the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) and the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), six out of 10 news executives think the Internet is changing the fundamental values of journalism. And their biggest concern is loosening standards of accuracy and verification, much of it tied to the immediacy of the Web.

In the movie Notting Hill, Julia Roberts plays a celebrity who falls in love with a non-celebrity, played by Hugh Grant. When the press finds out, she’s devastated because it doesn’t maintain her elite reputation. She tells Grant that reporters will always reference the story and the photos of him answering the door in his underwear. She tells him, “Newspapers live forever.”

Google’s trying to make that happen with a new collaboration with the Washington Post and the New York Times. It’s called “Living Stories,” and it takes news stories and puts them in historical context.  Read more... (199 words, 1 image, estimated 48 secs reading time)