Journalism is at the epicenter of a crisis in all the professions people do because they want to make a difference, like teaching, nursing and caregiving. From dwindling resources to increasing digital pressures to stagnating wages, journalists are finding that social impact is not enough when you have low salaries, long hours, and unmet expectations of excitement. Matthew Powers, a communications professor at the University of Washington, says things are even worse: This is not just a failure of a profession overtaken by commercial considerations. It's a reflection of a society unable to satisfy its citizens' basic desire to find meaning through the work they do. #Journalism #Media #VocationCrisis #DigitalAge
Hear you, Neal! We certainly miss you at Ole Miss...... Cheers! Lane Roy
Editor & Consultant, UNESCO Bangkok and the College Art Association (CAA), New York; Art Historian; Curator; Fulbright Fellow; Bangkok-New York
2wMuch for thought here, although I should say that these trends were apparent to me in the early 1990s. Commercialism, careerism, and corporatism were overtaking the major publications in New York, and the once-forseeable era of scholar journalism was imploding before it could even gain its footing. I left TIME magazine completely disillusioned with the profession, until I found my way back from a different direction. We must never give up on the ideals behind a once-great calling.