ABSTRACT
Twenty-first century journalism is in crisis. Although less acute in Europe and other countries than in the United States, the predicament has squeezed journalism as the public attends to news tweets and aggregators and the boundaries blur between professional and amateur writers and profit and nonprofit news outlets (Schudson, 2011). The crisis seems to spring from declining trust from the public, growing technical pressures on journalists, and widening demand for citizen participation in news. But what if journalism practitioners and scholars have misdiagnosed the crisis? If so, then journalism must reconsider its relation to trust, innovation, and citizenship, concepts that may seem self-evident.
