I spoke to a room full of future journalists at the National High School Journalism Convention on Friday, April 15. The first part of my talk rehashed the all-too-familiar "bad news" about the state of legacy media: Declining newspaper subscriptions and TV news ratings, stagnant or slumping revenues, and layoffs and pay freezes.
The graphic (literally) illustrations of the state of the state of legacy media can be found on Journalism.org in the 2010 report. But to be honest, this is bad news to the journalists who are the age of these kids' parents.The good news for would-be journalists is that a Wild West of new opportunities awaits. Here are some of the examples of the New Journalism that have me excited for this next generation.
Multimedia Storytelling
13 seconds in August (Minn. Star Tribune)
Year in Review (KGW.com)
Citizen Journalism
West Seattle Blog
Niche Content Sites
BikePortland.org
Old Media, Reinvented
Seattlepi.com
New Investigative Journalism
Pro Publica (which just won a Pulitzer )
Social Media
Twitter breaks Mumbai
Cross Platform Journalism
http://www.kgw.com/thesquare (TV & Web)
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