Jason Zengerle is joining NY Times Mag. https://t.co/0Mvduh1WbJ
— FishbowlNY (@FishbowlNY) December 27, 2016
WH comms director: Obama won't be directly involved in the media industry post-presidency https://t.co/Nr3NxRKrEo https://t.co/BKsyB0AKfS
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) December 26, 2016
Hearst Magazines Sees Record November Traffic with 26 Percent Increase Over 2015 https://t.co/jU66z75tK3 via @FishbowlNY pic.twitter.com/MRt9GpiKCW
— MPA (@mpamagmedia) December 23, 2016
We began work on this issue with the belief that the conventional wisdom about journalism is almost certainly wrong. You know the litany: Newspapers are dying; young people are abandoning mainstream news sources for Snapchat and Twitter; talented college students are choosing different professions; journalism, at least as it has been practiced for the last century, is done. The result of all of these facts, some of which are actually true, is deemed to be stagnation and decline, a scary spiral into an unfriendly future. At CJR, that is not the world we see. For the last six months, we've gone on the hunt for dispatches from a different future of journalism, and the results are here, in what we're calling our Innovation Issue. This future is dynamic, promising, and rife with opportunity.
Earlier this month, Suzanne Ashe left her apartment and car in Anchorage and embarked on a journey with her Chihuahua mix Blanca. The pair flew about 500 miles, partly by seaplane, southeast to Skagway, a town of less...