ABSTRACT
Accuracy, curiosity and skepticism are all cornerstones for the discipline of journalism. News organizations are in crisis, which means this is a critical time for journalism and, by extension, for democracy. Traditional news organizations are looking to the Internet to protect their franchises, but no one has quite figured out which business models will work in the twenty-first century. The traditional journalistic values of newspapers remain essential today; in fact, they may be needed more than ever. But journalism has always been about more than ink and paper. The best journalists may not always be comfortable talking about it, but they also understand that what they do has a meaning bigger than the individual writers and individual photographers or their stories and their pictures. Despite the gloom, the passion for journalism still lives in many of its practitioners. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
