Well, it's not as if I am up-to-the-minute on convergent journalism
myself, so let me take this off on a bit of a tangent.What if you
undergraduates organized a Journalism Club, so that we could bring in
a speaker who is really doing this stuff? You'd have no trouble
finding advisers among the sponsors of this list.

What do you guys think?

Peter Parisi

On 4/19/07, Gorelick, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Peter's post makes me realize that I don't really have a clear sense of
> how newspapers simultaneously put out their print and on-line versions.
> What I'd love to see is a case study of one story that would show its
> journey from reporter to editor to web to print to multi-media to pod
> cast. Is the print edition privileged at all? Or are major exclusive
> stories simply posted on the web site the moment they are finally
> cleared through the editorial process? Do they work on the multimedia
> versions of stories at the same time that the reporter is doing the
> reporting? Or are the multi-media people given the finished product and
> asked to  think of ways to use media to enhance it?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HCJ [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter
> Parisi
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: MoJo article on newspaper industry
>
> 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
> 695 Park Avenue
> New York, NY 10021
> 212-772-4949
> It's not the suffering itself that is so bad, it's _resenting_ the
> suffering. --Allen Ginsberg is
>


-- 
Peter Parisi, Ph.D.
Dept. of Film & Media Studies
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
212-772-4949
It's not the suffering itself that is so bad, it's _resenting_ the
suffering. --Allen Ginsberg