… via the SPJ First Draft blog. CJR writes that a “plague” of newsroom buyouts and closings is sweeping newspapers throughout the country. “Yet at the same time …
“… a world of news innovation is emerging online, both inside and outside of mainstream media. A recession looms like an iceberg but under the waterline is something unknown, a great restructuring of the way people get their news and information.”
So, smart students should check out this and this. The first “this” is the SPJ page with a good overall commentary and the second “this” provides comments [CJR’s Parting Shots] of journalists who are encountering what I like to described as the unreality, that is, an experiences or circumstance so strange and alienating that the word “unreal” immediately comes to mind.
Tags: Columbia Journalism Review, newspaper closings, recession, SPJ