How news companies can change
Making journalism work as news companies struggle for survival.
Produced by Carin Dessauer with David Bohrman, CNN; Neil Budde, Daily Me; Jennifer Carroll, Gannett; Jan Scha!er, J-Lab; Solana Larsen, Global Voices. Exercise by Dan Suwyn, Rapid Change.
Old News Organizations Hook the Public With New Media
By Veronica Zaragovia — At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in the community through new media – namely, citizen journalism.
Digital natives face to face with us boomers
By Zita Arocha — Millennials are web surfing holistic learners who seek digital connections practically 24-7. The boomers are us (me included); we were shaped by the politics of the Vietnam war and came of age professionally after the advent of computers and the world wide web. We are struggling to adapt to the digital revolution. Some of us just don’t get it.
Hey newsies, make way for the websies
By Zita Arocha — Three recent J school grads bemoan that they work for newspaper web sites where most of what they do is click buttons to paste news stories and photos on the site. This is their first job in the “new” news media. As “web producers,” they are antsy to get on with what they were trained to do at good J schools – gather news and information and package that into multimedia stories.
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