Publishers may save money, but they may also lose their role as gatekeepers.
Kennedy mischievously suggested that professors and gatekeepers should swap jobs for a while.
"digital wrappers are basically multifunction gatekeepers," says Jim Halberston, an analyst at Zona Research Inc. in San Francisco.
Most books have been through a number of gatekeepers before being published—agents, editors, marketing boards, and so on.
Where are the gatekeepers, the editors and news managers who guarded against mistakes, editorial insinuation and fabrication?
These divisions of the gatekeepers, through their chief men, had duties for ministering in the temple of the Lord, just as their relatives had.
Dan doesn't make upgrading the sources, or the gatekeepers, or the filters-or any other "them" in the media ecosystem-his only or even primary goal.
Beyond their primary role as gatekeepers, digital wrappers might start to play an important role in marketing and sales efforts for online vendors.
Mirroring the conclusions of the first programme, the Great Levelling?, we were the gatekeepers that curated the content that people saw.
The gatekeepers at each gate did not need to leave their posts, because their fellow Levites made the preparations for them.
Short-term rewards in new financial products and rapidly growing markets overwhelmed or blinded private sector gatekeepers, and swamped those parts of the system that were supposed to mitigate risk.
