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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.’

‘In an era in which digital alteration of images is increasingly easy, credibility is everything.’

‘The crucial leap will be helping our audience become involved in the process much more directly.’

The news industry is a resilient bunch. Newspapers, in particular, represent some of the United States’s oldest and most respected companies. So far they have weathered storms of significant social,…