Given the faster, increasingly digital and polarized ways news is disseminated around the world, the role of trusted news organizations is to "contexualize" the bits of information people pick up in various different media, Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist for The New York Times, said Wednesday in Tokyo.
Sorkin, also founder of Dealbook, a financial news service produced by the newspaper, was speaking at an event to commemorate the Oct. 16 launch of the publishing tie-up between The Japan Times and the International New York Times. The occasion also marked the Oct. 14 rebranding of the International Herald Tribune as the International New York Times.
In his talk, titled "Innovation, Investment and the Japanese economy," Sorkin shared his thoughts on the changing business and media landscape, where the Internet and social media have democratized the ways people exchange information and shape their opinions on various issues.