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