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If Journalism Were a Park
If journalism were a park, what sort of park would it be? Strange question? Maybe, but how we answer it could help determine how we approach the future of journalism.
Last week at a conference in Stanford, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen used a tale of two parks to discuss how the Internet has reshaped journalism. He first described the pristine, quiet, private Gramercy Park, a gated green space that most New Yorkers aren’t allowed to visit , and compared it to the grittier, vibrant, public Washington Square Park near NYU’s campus.
Public Tells FCC How to Shape Our Media Future
The FCC’s call for public comment about the future of the media has opened up a national discourse with citizens submitting a wide range of concerns about our media system. As the May 7th deadline approaches – you can still add your own comments – we examined a handful of the submissions from a diverse spectrum of groups, and identified several broad themes:
Changing News Media Landscape
Public Media: Front and Center at the Future of News
This post originally appeared on www.NewPublicMedia.org.
Throughout the country and across the political divide, there has been a surge of support lately for a national investment in journalism. Meeting the information needs of our communities has become what the Twitter folks would call “a trending topic.”
In fact, this month alone saw the release of two major reports on the state of journalism and newsgathering in the United States.
