A note from the editor

By Kyle Pope, CJR

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.