Rethinking the Role of the Journalist in the Participatory Age

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a journalist as “a person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news or features to be broadcast on radio or television.” The definition is less about what a journalist actually does and more about whom they work for. It reflects how the profession of journalism developed in a mass media system, based on the production of news by paid professionals who decided what the public needs to know, when it needs to know it and how it will know it.

via MediaShift . Rethinking the Role of the Journalist in the Participatory Age | PBS.