For decades, the U.S. news industry has been experiencing a collective existential crisis. Beyond an escalating sense of urgency, not much has changed as media pontificators like me and the Columbia Journalism Review continue to ask What is news? and What is Journalism? every year. Yet, it’s impossible to address what journalists do and why we exist (and no, it’s not about saving democracy) without understanding how and who becomes a journalist today.
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