Thomas Goetz is deputy editor of Wired and author of the blog epidemix.org. He also wrote a recent New York Times Op-Ed on the medical community's reluctance to switch to a universal electronic record-keeping system.
PRWeek: How was journalism impacted by the original dot.com boom and bust?
Thomas Goetz: The ripples from the technology boom carried over right into journalism. As went technology, so went those journalism startups, [with] layoffs, retrenchment and all that. [Recently,] there has not been the journalistic hiring ...