Friday, January 8, 2010

Where do we go from here?



Photo by Lynn Waldsmith

Some final thoughts . . . Check out this example of a high school newspaper that has gone online. The Patriot is a print and web publication of The John Carroll School in Bel Air, Maryland. Do you think high school newspapers are becoming obsolete? That is, should they go online? Is it time for high school news websites instead of papers?


Which brings me to an interesting blog post I'd like to share about how journalism isn't really about "new media" or "old media". It's about journalism. Click here to read the "New Year's resolution" post from Carrie Brown-Smith, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. Though she wrote the post one year ago, I think it's a more than timely way to begin a discussion of journalism for the new decade.

I hope you've enjoyed our journalism blog this semester. Waldsmith's Dispatch will be on hiatus until September 2010 when a new crop of aspiring writers joins me for another semester of journalism bootcamp!



Creative Commons photo, "Sunset Road", by KopfjÀger