Communications

Journalism as Innovator

June 15, 2017  • Communications and Society Program

The following is part of a series of posts on the #FutureofNews highlighting discussions from the Aspen Institute Roundtable on the Future of Journalism.

“Externally-focused journalism is helicoptering in and telling people what happened,” said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at CUNY and media pundit for BuzzMachine. “Internally-focused journalism says, ‘What does this community need to meet its goals?’”

This chapter, “Journalism as Innovator,” from the report of the Aspen Institute Roundtable on the Future of Journalism explores the role journalists play in creating news spaces for information exchange. How much more will journalism be able to do as it starts experimenting with new technologies like virtual reality? To learn more, please visit: http://as.pn/journalism