If you’re hearing few howls and seeing little rending of garments over the impending death of institutional, high-quality journalism, it’s because the public at large has been trained to undervalue journalists and journalism. That was written about three years ago in a much-talked-about Atlantic article, “End Times,” which essentially predicted the end of the print edition …
Before I started doing what I do now for the National Writing Project, before I taught in the classroom, I was a reporter. I worked for a small paper in Massachusetts called The Daily Hampshire Gazette, which is still in publication and, miraculously in this day and age, still family owned. Before that, I worked …
If you’re at all interested in considering the future of journalism, listen to this roundtable conversation of very smart people hosted by California’s Commonwealth Club.
The Wire is an amazing show. No news there. I’m currently in the middle of season five which focuses on the Baltimore Sun and the cannibalizing of that once venerable newspaper. Bought by a large Chicago media corporation, the paper’s staff is slashed and its role as the fourth estate severely compromised. Veterans with long-nurtured …