The field of journalism is being explored from the viewpoint of convergence processes in a broader social context, as well as from the perspective of converging media. The article deals both with dystopic and with the utopistic theories of the future of technology, taking both perspectives into account in order to analyze the crisis of journalism from different angles. Attention is given to the need to neutralize political control of the media in order to enable growth of truly independent, existentially unthreatened media able to provide intellectual and ethical input to the society and thus acting as a corrective force, i. e. as a true 'analogue complement' to the digital reality capable of transforming digital platforms into generators of actual value to the society, referred to as 'digital dividends'. Finally, this is also seen as a precondition for a human-oriented cultural development which is - and undoubtedly will be in the future - becoming ever more dependent on digital practices, and therefore inevitably under a growing pressure of social and political forces competing for influence across the digital sphere.