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What I Think I Know About Journalism — Jay Rosen

Veteran journalism professor Jay Rosen on four things he’s learned after 25 years of teaching:

  • The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
  • The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
  • The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
  • Making facts public does not a public make; information alone will not inform us.

This is how I read these bullet points:

  • Journalism, like government, is strengthened by public participation.
  • Striving for objectivity or balance isn’t the same as isn’t the same as not taking sides.
  • How people use information has changed. Journalism needs to adapt to these changes.
  • The daily media clamor drowns out what people actually want to know. The easiest way to find out is to ask them.

 

via Jay Rosen, Pressthink

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