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‘I thought by sheer will I could be the one teacher who led his students away from plagiarism.’

To understand the larger media environment in which journalism is practiced—”the new ocean we’re swimming in,” as Jane Ellen Stevens calls it—she offers four must-read books:“The Search: How Google and…

A journalism class experiences firsthand ‘the slippery new terms being used in our slippery times.’

‘The question is not whether the newspaper is dead, but whether it can be rescued from unreasonable demands.’

Putting the Web first might be ‘the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.’

‘Once the idea of using footnotes took hold, the question became whether we could use them for more than their usual purpose of attribution …’

‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’

‘My introduction to daily journalism began with a murder. My introduction to Niemanry also began with a murder.’

Knight Foundation asks whether the community role newspapers play can be replicated by new media and offers to support those who show it can.

‘Tomorrow’s potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how.’