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The toxic culture of the newsroom
by mtippett | April 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm | 281 views | 2 comments
Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran. Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?
Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I've been getting quite aggravated at the close-minded and helpless attitudes I'm still encountering from too many journalists about how the media landscape is changing.
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April 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm by mtippett, 281 views, 2 comments
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at 13:31 on April 29th, 2008
I have to agree with Amy. There's still vast resistance to change in many newsrooms - but as she says, the changes that are afoot can actually make journalists' work more interesting, and dare I say it, relevant. I'm afraid the bottom line for journalists is: adapt or die.
at 18:40 on April 29th, 2008
I just finished journalism school last spring and I can attest to a widespread unhopefulness among students regarding jobs. There does still seem to be a lot of work at community newspapers though, as a lot of us found work at smaller papers straight out of school, and I think that's pretty common.