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Religion Reporting

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday I relayed much gloom and doom about the future of the printed medium, based on reports from expert panelists who gathered for the centennial celebration last week of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Although religion reporting […]

Journalism Survival Mode

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I attended a symposium at my alma mater last week. The University of Missouri marked the centennial of the world’s oldest journalism school by dedicating the $31 million state-of-the-art Reynolds Journalism Institute. Yet the celebration was muted, due to the gloomy forecast for the industry.
Unfortunately, the business model that sustained newspapers and magazines for most […]