Summary: In this article, a Mashable writer newly arrived at NYU journalism school bemoans old-thinking in her professors and classmates.
Highlight: The comments are full of responses from established journalists, who point out that her "work" for Mashable is largely just copy-pasting press releases and lifting images from other sites.
The writer is really confused as to why she's the only student in her class actively blogging somewhere.
The answers pretty simple, why write for free when you aim to get paid to do it? That's the prevailing opinion among journalists. There's really no equivalent to open source among journalists.
Every single journalism class at NYU has required me to bring the bulky [New York Times] newspaper.
This quote gives me visions of the Toy Story "Squeeze Toy Aliens", each with a newspaper in their hands, waiting for a NYT Senior Editor to come down from the sky and take one lucky student to a better place.
This article is obviously working a specific perspective and could be projecting quite a bit of personal experience / opinion into things, but it speaks volumes about the situation the paper media finds itself in.
I think that's exactly how most students at journalism schools think. I went to grad school with about 200 smart, young, clever, enterprising people, and to the best of my knowledge, I'm the only one of them who's trying to do his own thing after graduation. Many reporters are all about being "enterprising" until it comes to who they work for, then they're happy to collect a paycheck and work for the advertising guys in the back room who make more than them.
I'm interested in seeing how journalism schools approach the unfolding Palin Yahoo! e-mail account hacking story.
This could be a big story, it's happening right now, and it likely won't be talked about. After all, it was just some hacker, not a serious journalist.
Highlight: The comments are full of responses from established journalists, who point out that her "work" for Mashable is largely just copy-pasting press releases and lifting images from other sites.
The writer is really confused as to why she's the only student in her class actively blogging somewhere.
The answers pretty simple, why write for free when you aim to get paid to do it? That's the prevailing opinion among journalists. There's really no equivalent to open source among journalists.