Media landscape
Live blog: Steve Buttry presents the Complete Community Connection at TCU
Steve Buttry, C3 innovation coach for Gazette Communications, presented the Complete Community Connection at TCU on November 18 during a workshop put on by the Schieffer School of Journalism. You can replay a live blog of the event below. You can also view Steve’s slides from the presentation online. Steve also presented four session on [...]
Journalism is more than a business model
(Journalism) is not business model; it is not a job; it is not a company; it is not an industry; it is not a form of media; it is not a distribution platform. Instead, journalism is an activity. It is a body of practices by which information and knowledge is gathered, processed, and conveyed. The [...]
Are bloggers journalists?
There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? [...]
About the transformation of media
Contradictions, confusions, and multiple perspectives should be anticipated at a moment of transition where one media paradigm is dying and another is being born. None of us really knows how to live in this era of media convergence, collective intelligence and participatory culture. These changes are producing anxieties and uncertainties, even panic, as people imagine [...]
Not all online content producers are journalists
The popular claim that ‘we are all journalists now’ must be refuted; perhaps we are all producers of online content, but the great values associated with journalism must be nurtured to ensure the high quality reporting that a thriving democracy has the right to expect. — Ernest Wilson, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for [...]