{"id":1866,"date":"2019-12-24T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2019-12-24T18:45:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:45:21","slug":"the-professional-culture-of-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/24\/the-professional-culture-of-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Professional Culture of the Press”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NYU Journalism professor and media critic Jay Rosen* writes that “Not in personal but in public life, 2019 has been the most bleak and depressing year I have lived through of my 63. A few tiny green shoots in a toxic field that is spreading over more and more of the globe. This [Twitter] thread<\/a> was the most optimistic I could be.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay’s discerning analysis begins this way: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I started studying the American press as an institution (around 35 years ago) I did not assign much significance to a factor that would later feel huge and at times even decisive: the professional culture of the press. It’s a beast. But now that beast is changing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Rosen’s quasi-optimistic conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engagement journalism, solutions journalism, less extractive journalism, a more agile, iterative newsroom. Nothing I have seen while watching these emerge suggests they are going away soon. The shocks to the system have been so many that the culture of the press is evolving.<\/p>

I devote a lot of my feed here to problems in the press, and to criticism of some of its worse practices. But I don’t want to leave the impression that everything is collapsing and getting worse. For some things in journalism are collapsing \u2014 and it’s actually getting better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Please read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Jay was my editor at the University at Buffalo’s student newspaper<\/a>, The Spectrum. He was a tough but wonderful mentor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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