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The Public and Journalists: They Disagree on Core Values

In considering the modern relevance of Walter Williams’s “Journalist’s Creed,” it was well documented that people who aren’t journalists held increasingly negative attitudes toward news organizations. For example, The Pew…

The 21st Century Journalist’s Creed

A former newspaper editor urges journalists to ‘let go of the sense that we have control and recognize how much better public service journalism can be when we accept the…

An Explosion Prompts Rethinking of Twitter and Facebook

‘… this explosion was our “aha” moment in experiencing how social media, Twitter, in particular, opens up new possibilities in journalism.’

Reporting Relies on Questions: Now They Come From Readers

At MyReporter.com, StarNews readers get the conversation going by asking about what’s on their minds, and then reporters respond.

Inviting the Rise of the Entrepreneurial Journalist

True/Slant is modeling the newsroom of the future by empowering contributors to build their own digital brands—and by changing the role of the editor.

Dealing With Disruption

As digital media gets ‘better, faster and cheaper. … [there is] little time for long-established human institutions like journalism to adapt.’

What’s Old Can Be New Again—Assisted By Digital Media

‘It’s not a digital update of the newspaper, but it is a digital update of the community connection role I first learned about as a youth in Shenandoah.’

An Antidote for Web Overload

With a hunger for explanatory guidance amid the raging storm of Web news flashes, a journalist stresses context to attract digital users.

Technology Diminishes Journalists’ Value

RELATED ARTICLE“Blogs, Tweets, Social Media, and the News Business”– Robert G. PicardIn May, Robert Picard wrote a piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled “Why journalists deserve low pay.” The…

What Is Journalism’s Place in Social Media?

‘Bringing our journalistic values to these environments that have captured the imagination of millions is one of the most promising ways we have of serving that interest.’