Photo by Chris Meyer Neither sleet nor snow nor frost of day can keep Hoosier students away from their appointed rounds. This image was taken on the lawn of the IU Art Museum on the Bloomington campus, looking west towards the HPER building through the "Indiana Arc," a sculpture by Charles Perry.

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Journalism, where art thou?

 

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Jefferson’s tongue-in-cheek remark certainly didn’t take into account the ever-changing landscape of journalism in the 21st century. According to a new book by IU researchers, the number of full-time U.S. journalists has dwindled during the last decade, and a new report, “Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News,” addresses the impact and sustainability of local web site news by “citizen journalists” whose organization’s require no revenue. (Image courtesy of the Library of Congress)

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