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- Organization
- University of Tennessee Department of Student Publications
- Title
- Director
- Location
- 5 Communications Building, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0314
- About Me
- I am a College Media Adviser and colleague of The Chronicle's general manager. As director of a student publications program, I work closely with student staff of the editorially independent daily student newspaper on our campus which has a 101-year tradition of student newspaper publishing, and more than 40 years of daily publishing (five days a week). As a professional advising students involved in campus journalism, I have an intense interest in the future of newsrooms, both on behalf of our student staff and our campus readership.
- Share your thoughts about how the newsroom of the future should be different . (And if you do, please post a copy of your answer in the forums).
- Lose the focus on entertainment as news. It is threatening the value and existence of news media.
Of particular note is the now daily dose of worthless information often presented with the cynical, tawdry sensationalism of gore and sleaze...material that has traditiionally had little to no general news value.
Offering such content as (or in place of) "serious journalism" is degrading not only to news media but to a democratic society's standards for essential information.
That said, media of the future will benefit from a return to or renewal of commitment to the tenets of journalistic practice (codes of ethics) that focus the professional journalist on providing information, images and commentary for the benefit of the community and its citizens.
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