My previous blogging efforts have centered on travel adventures, but my passport's been resting on my bookshelf for months now, so I'm taking this blog in a new direction. Basically, this is where I'm going to write editorials about the journalism industry. I have a weekly writing assignment for my journalism Capstone (MU's senior thesis class), and those will make up most of the entries, at least initially.
Turns out, print is dying. I'm about to enter a field that is scrambling to get ahead of the online push, and the mantra I'm hearing from the J-school is "converge or die." Several friends in the industry have said that newspaper staffers are now expected to blog for the paper -- writing about the industry, ethics, experiences in the newsroom, etc. I can't say I'm thrilled about the way things appear to be changing; there's a lot of uncertainty about where newspapers are going, and it seems that I'll see the medium die within my lifetime. But let's not get too bleak. My J-school class is a smart group, and we're coming into the industry at a great time to save it.
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