Erin Alterman is a Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and author of the political blog, Altercation. He is The Liberal Media columnist for The Nation, and a history consultant for HBO films. A noted media and political critic, he is the author of seven books, most recently, Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring Americas Most Important Ideals.

In this episode of BTNN, Eric Alterman discusses how the internet impacts the quality of journalism people read everyday.

Aron Pilhofer is editor of Interactive News Technologies at the New York Times, and is the Times former projects editor on their computer-assisted reporting team, specializing in stories on money in politics and elections. As database editor at the Center for Public Integrity, he tracked political non-profit 527 groups.

In this episode of BTNN, Aron Pilhofer discusses several skills journalists should learn to prepare for the digital future.

A former newspaper publisher, Martin Langeveld is Executive Vice President of CircLabs Inc., currently developing Circulate, a service that makes online news content more accessible. He writes the blog, News After Newspapers, which is now hosted by Harvard Universitys Nieman Journalism Lab.

In this episode of BTNN, Martin Langeveld talks about how technology continues to change the way we consume news.