Geneva Overholser of the Missouri School Of Journalism lets loose on today's journalists that are clinging to the ways of the past in her latest column at Poynter Online.
To her, choosing only the principles of the past that are 'essential to democracy' and combining them with new innovations that the media have tried to be 'above' doing will allow journalism to stay relevant in the new century. The online component and all its arms from podcasting to multimedia are swiftly becoming required skills for journalists of today and tomorrow.
"And we will most assuredly have to get it through our heads (and hearts) just how exciting and full of possibility for journalism's future are today's new venues -- all these new digital platforms that so many have simply wished go away," she writes. "What could be worse than having journalism on iPods? How about NOT having it there?"
The Poynter piece is also timed with the release of her own study dubbed "On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto For Change." Released by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the study took about a year's worth of research and interviews to create. It also features a group of 'Action Steps' for newspapers to follow in order to keep pace from the top (more responsibility to corporate governance of media companies) to the bottom (training of print reporters on online media and vice-versa). You can view the study as a PDF here.
She also took part in a question-and-answer session with the APPC, which can be viewed here.
Because of family commitments, I will have to hold off my editorial opinion on the study until tomorrow. However, from the little I have seen, this might rattle a few cages.
To her, choosing only the principles of the past that are 'essential to democracy' and combining them with new innovations that the media have tried to be 'above' doing will allow journalism to stay relevant in the new century. The online component and all its arms from podcasting to multimedia are swiftly becoming required skills for journalists of today and tomorrow.
"And we will most assuredly have to get it through our heads (and hearts) just how exciting and full of possibility for journalism's future are today's new venues -- all these new digital platforms that so many have simply wished go away," she writes. "What could be worse than having journalism on iPods? How about NOT having it there?"
The Poynter piece is also timed with the release of her own study dubbed "On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto For Change." Released by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the study took about a year's worth of research and interviews to create. It also features a group of 'Action Steps' for newspapers to follow in order to keep pace from the top (more responsibility to corporate governance of media companies) to the bottom (training of print reporters on online media and vice-versa). You can view the study as a PDF here.
She also took part in a question-and-answer session with the APPC, which can be viewed here.
Because of family commitments, I will have to hold off my editorial opinion on the study until tomorrow. However, from the little I have seen, this might rattle a few cages.
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