Kenneth Lerer: How We Got Here and How We Get Out of Here - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 Apr 09
  

  Yule Heibel

  Transcript of Kenneth Lerer's speech at the Columbia Journalism School Annual New Media Lecture Series, April 23, 2009.
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  A lot of what we're seeing online today is actually a return, full circle, to the way things were when American newspapers began; a mixture of advocacy and investigative in-your-face journalism. There is a long and distinguished history of such newspapers -- from the papers that were fiercely loyal to Jefferson or Hamilton, to the abolitionist broadsheets, to the activist newspapers at the turn of the century. As my partner Arianna Huffington says, the mission of journalism has always been "truth-seeking, not striking some fictitious balance between two sides."
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• 26 Apr 09
  

  paul lowe

  Kenneth Lerer delivered the following speech at the Columbia Journalism School Annual New Media Lecture Series on Thursday, April 23, 2009
  
  This is the end of my year at Columbia and I want to really thank you for having me. I've had a totally terrific time. I learned a ton from Sree throughout this year, so thank you Sree, as well as from the students who came to the lectures.
  
  I sat in on one of Michael Shapiro's classes one day last Fall, where we brainstormed ideas for Brooklyn Ink. (By the way, a site that I think could be a real business.) And I remember one of the students asking me, with all the press about newspapers and magazines going out of business, if I thought there would still be a job available for her by the time she graduated. I assured her there would be, that yes the business of journalism was certainly in a state of flux, but that didn't mean she would have nowhere to go. But her question hit home and I thought of my own two children, and how hard it is and how anxiety-provoking it can be looking for a job.

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