ABSTRACT
Journalists are picking up new skills and advancing their careers by embracing the newest techniques in newsgathering – and that is great. Journalists tell us that the more things change, the more they need the basics: persistence, enterprise, a love of fact, and the willingness to dig and to ask tough questions of those in power. Seeing journalism as more of a service than a product can prompt journalists to come to school board or city council meetings or candidate interviews armed with a set of questions framed in collaboration with the community. Journalism practices can stray from principles – often unintentionally. Engaged journalism practices are spreading among long-established newsrooms as well. The term “engaged journalism” has become somewhat muddied and is used in a variety of different ways.
