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The Future of Journalism in 560 Words (Four Tweets) « J-School: Educating Independent Journalists January 16, 2009

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From Christopher Anderson, PhD student at Columbia:

"Successful journalism is social; the powerful institutions they watch are bureaucracies. What to do?
Social movements are social, like media, and they watch powerful institutions the same way journalism should and used to.
Therefore, a successful– and moral– future journalism will be place-based aggregations of the struggles of relevant social movements.
And objectivity will not be an attitude of disinterest, but an “objectfulness”– a gathering together of objects (once called “reporting.”)"

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