This new structure changes not only the skills but likely the character of the journalist. These days when I see a journalist talk only about his or her passion to write and tell stories, I worry for them that they will find fewer jobs and less of a calling. But when I hear journalists say that their passion is to report, to dig up facts, to serve and inform the community by all means possible, I feel better. When I hear a journalist talk about collaboration with that community as the highest art, then I get happy.
Let the record show that I am not declaring the article useless or dead. Just optional.
The article as luxury or byproduct « BuzzMachine
Read Jarvis’s whole post — with now-familiar examples the kind of reporter he’s talking about, e.g. Andy Carvin & Brian Stetler.
