Time is a circle, and this creator-journalist boom takes me back to 2005 when I was an undergrad journalism student. It’s exciting to see this dynamic revived 20 years later. I remember the panic about bloggers diluting journalism; but instead, they expanded the field and made it more accessible. I love that we’re re-examining who gets to be called a journalist — it’s personal for me because, after spending most of my career in marketing, I wasn’t seen as a journalist, even during a recent stint in a legacy newsroom. A colleague once told me, “newsrooms are an insular community,” and I felt that deeply. Some gatekeeping is necessary in this post-verification, disinfo-filled era, but your ideas on media literacy and collaboration show how we can widen the frame. Thank you for such a thoughtful post and the exciting vision for our field.
Time is a circle, and this creator-journalist boom takes me back to 2005 when I was an undergrad journalism student. It’s exciting to see this dynamic revived 20 years later. I remember the panic about bloggers diluting journalism; but instead, they expanded the field and made it more accessible. I love that we’re re-examining who gets to be called a journalist — it’s personal for me because, after spending most of my career in marketing, I wasn’t seen as a journalist, even during a recent stint in a legacy newsroom. A colleague once told me, “newsrooms are an insular community,” and I felt that deeply. Some gatekeeping is necessary in this post-verification, disinfo-filled era, but your ideas on media literacy and collaboration show how we can widen the frame. Thank you for such a thoughtful post and the exciting vision for our field.