Online Journalism Blog

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Add another $100,000 for Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net. News outlet Reuters has handed over the six-figure grant to the New York University professor's online initiative, which will attempt to get the reader more involved in reporting through several ways that are detailed in this Huffington Post article.

Chris Ahearn, author of the piece and head of Reuters' media division feels that the Internet's emerging role in journalism can be "the perfect vehicle" for changing the minds of a readership with a growing distrust for the media. "While the Internet is rapidly transforming the world of journalistic media, it also presents amazing new possibilities in terms of strengthening the investigative arm of journalism," he writes.

Perhaps we could take a lesson from Mr. Ahearn and think of the good things that print journalists can create by harnessing the Internet, instead of thinking like it's out to take our future jobs.

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