Research

There are interesting tensions playing out in my group between students who are experienced journalists and those planning to join the profession. The experienced folks think the changes in the media industry must be guided by journalists and cannot envision a future where journalists would be forced to surrender their privileged positions to ordinary folks. There is an article in the May AJR issue that captures a similar conversation in several media houses. I thought it would be a good starting point for future research on how our view of our role as journalists is likely to influence the type of online journalism models that we are likely to pursue, regardless of the ICT tools out there. Gannett, for example, is totally against the idea of citizen journalism and prefers to use citizens for leads and story ideas.