This is an accurate take on what we, as local journalists, do everyday.
I mourn the four journalists and the sales assistant who lost their lives yesterday, and I marvel at the courage of the staff of the…
This is an accurate take on what we, as local journalists, do everyday. I spent 22 years as a reporter and editor at the most local of levels, covering council and zoning board meetings, writing the police blotter, posting wedding announcements. I’ve spent the last five years teaching the importance of this work as an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University. I remain a working journalist, despite the damage done to the institution by corporate ownership, foolish economic choices, and a technological transformation that has left advertising revenues in freefall.
I mourn the four journalists and the sales assistant who lost their lives yesterday, and I marvel at the courage of the staff of the Capital Gazette, who refused to let the shooting keep the paper from coming out.
And I worry about the current environment — the assaults on the industry by the president and his supporters, the increasingly unhinged language, the distrust in general.
Here is my two cents:
Journalism in an Atmosphere of Hate
Capital-Gazette shooting appears the work of a feud, but happens in broader context of anti-press attacks by Trump, the…medium.com