Last night, Jackson and I drove down to Stanford University to watch five of this year’s twenty Knight fellows—journalists funded by the Knight Foundation to improve the quality of news and information reaching the public—present their projects. It was Demo Night. The room was packed with a…
I definitely share my colleagues’ skepticism about ‘citizen journalism’ - it’s a great addition to our understanding of the world, but it could never replace professional journalism. Nonetheless, the era of Facebook and Flipboard has created an interesting dialectic; despite the doom and gloom, it’s a great time to be working in journalism.
