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Coverage of the riots in France reaffirmed the need for ongoing, in-depth reporting of poor immigrants’ circumstances and the issues they confront.

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’

‘Cartoon ideas presented themselves, but none embraced the gravity of the situation.’

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.

‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’

New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’

Writing in Southeast Asia, an American journalist comments on reporters’ use of this descriptive phrase in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A journalist describes why and how ‘a news organization works with its audience to have that “conversation” that is news.’

‘The challenge for me was to get the story off the Internet and into print.’

‘Only as an afterthought did it dawn on us that the audience is the real content on the Web.’