The Future of Journalism

I feel like reading that article was like having yet another lecture from Sam Martino on the fact that "the Internet is the information superhighway." I know it sounds bad, but ever since my first day at the Royal Purple in October 2007, I have heard that speech. That article is already old news. How ironic.

Journalism's a dying breed, at least the hard-hitting hot-off-the-press journalism that many professors are still attempting to teach. I believe that of course, as with many other things, people are turning to the Internet for their news sourcing. Even this semester, people have turned to RoyalPurpleNews.com for their campus briefing, and it's been totally great and completely what Martino predicted. He's a wise man, even if he tells me the same thing two minutes apart.

I think the article is right in saying that the journalism "pros" have no idea what's going to be happening in ten years. It's the students that I'm surrounded by today that will decide what's happening in the entire business. We're losing great papers. Minnesota and Chicago have had hard-hitting, hot-off-the-press news, but it wasn't enough to keep them afloat. We all need to start thinking out of the box. I guess I'm lucky that I'm getting a degree that can put me in the journalism world and the art world, because I'm not sure where the rocky road will lead in ten years.