Members of this list, especially younger members, may be interested in
a couple of recent articles on the current state and  likely future of
the newspaper industry.

The current Mother Jones has an excellent round up on the economic
pressures that are endangering quality journalism. It includes an
illuminating discussion of "convergence" -- having reporters handle a
variety of new responsibilities, such as filing breaking news stories
to the Internet edition, shoot stills and video, appear on TV, and
still write more substantial stories for the print edition.
It's at:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/03/breaking_the_news.html

American Journalism Review has a story on how young journalists are
navigating between their love of the journalism and their recognition
that the business is undergoing significant change.
Check out:
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4305

If any of you get a chance to look at this stuff, let us know what you
think. How are you envisioning your career? Where would you like to be
in journalism? What sort of alternative plans do you have, if any?

Peter Parisi, Ph.D.
Dept. of Film & Media Studies
Hunter College
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New York, NY 10021
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It's not the suffering itself that is so bad, it's _resenting_ the
suffering. --Allen Ginsberg
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