Saturday, April 30, 2011

Jay Rosen on journalism

Jay Rosen: Next month I will have taught journalism at New York University for 25 years, an occasion that has led me to reflect on what I have tried to profess in that time.
Or, to put it another way, what I think I know about journalism.
It comes down to these four ideas.
1. The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
2. The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
3. The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
4. Making facts public does not a public make; information alone will not inform us.
Shall we take them in order?
http://pressthink.org/2011/04/what-i-think-i-know-about-journalism

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