There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does a very good job of describing that corruption, it is failing to bring it into a bigger focus. To explain what it is all about.
AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall being amazed that the whole newsroom was 'chatting' this way.
The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.
We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
I think the future of journalism is going to be a battle between caution and recklessness. And I think a little bit of recklessness is a good thing, as some of the WikiLeaks cables proved.
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
