LA Observed blogger John Schwada wrote a Sept. 13 article titled “At USC: Journalism 1.0 meets Journalism 7.0” after meeting dozens of aspiring journalists during his visit to USC Annenberg.
"I only have the highest admiration for the young, convergent journalists I met from USC's specialized master's program ... Simply put, they are madly multi-tasking reporters, weaving together all of the new, converging threads of social media and news-talk into a bigger, more luxurious, more amorphous, journalism of the future," he wrote.
However, he wrote that he's concerned that today's young journalists are being forced by the poor economics of the profession to do "too much communicating and not enough reporting, too much selling and not enough digging."
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