From Germany’s top fifteen bloggers comes a declaration of the future of journalism dubbed “The Internet Manifesto – How journalism works today.”

As Zingerding takes shape, the subject of new media continues to be a driving force in building our platform.  Zingerding is about releasing the art form of comic strips from their ties to newspapers and reinventing not only the business model, but the culture surrounding them for the internet age.  Cartoonists are journalists whose pens don’t stop at the written word, but advance into the realm of the aesthetic.

The Internet Manifesto more or less covers Zingerding’s theories on journalism.  There are cartoonists on all sides of the fence, as are writers in the world of news reporting.  But as the Manifesto points out, it’s not a question of old media vs. new media (newspapers vs. bloggers, web cartoonists, etc.), it’s about journalism’s inevitable adaptation to the new.

Zingerding is that very adaptation, built specifically for the comic strip and its creators.