About Me

I am a 20-year old journalism student from a small private college in Iowa, and am studying journalism and mass communication because I have always had a passion for writing. There are a number of issues about the field that I am interested in from convergence to the future of the profession as a whole. I often wonder where the jobs in this market will be by the time I enter the workforce, as well as which skills I need to acquire so I can be viewed as a multi-faceted employee. I found one particular quote from Rupert Murdoch appearing in an article in The Economist to echo my fears about an apathetic future for readers, while at the same time presenting a new argument-- that those in the profession may be in part to blame. Murdoch says:

“I BELIEVE too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers,” Rupert Murdoch, the boss of News Corporation, one of the world's largest media companies, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week. No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are ditching their newspapers. Today's teens, twenty- and thirty-somethings “don't want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what's important,” Mr Murdoch said, “and they certainly don't want news presented as gospel.” And yet, he went on, “as an industry, many of us have been remarkably, unaccountably, complacent."