Seocond online journalism lecture at City University yesterday. The message: "Respect to you" if you entered this program expecting to work for a newspaper (excepting local weeklies). Translation: good luck, idiot. I hope nobody read my application closely.
Print as we knew it is disappearing, but the news seemed less overwhelming than last week, maybe because acceptance has set in, maybe becasue the classroom was smaller.
After limited doom and gloom, however, lecturer Mark Hallam gave an inspiring talk about the untapped possibilites of journalism on the internet.
"If someone tells you what online journalism is, don't trust them," he said. "This is a story without an ending, where you get to define what journalism is."
In a place where the fruits of your professional labor are jumbled with everything else on the World Wide Web, a reporter stands out through "quality and ethic."
That sounds pretty good.
Innovation, he added, will be key if journalism wants to stay relevant and profitable in an online world. Trying something different many times over, and failing plenty along the way, look like the way forward.
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