Syed case and S.C. shooting show nonjournalists, pros
working the same ground By David Zurawik The Baltimore Sun
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Television Media Industry Adnan Syed Journalism Sarah Koenig
News Media Anderson Cooper
Humbly watching non-journalists driving biggest stories with
digital tools
From cell phone video to podcasts, citizens and advocates
shape national agenda
But what's left for mainstream media?
The past week has been a lesson in journalistic humility for
me.
After a career of
thinking and writing about how the kind of mainstream journalistic institutions
at which I worked set the local and national agenda, I had a moment of clarity
with a voice in my head saying, "Not so much any more, my self-important
friend."
[…]
… I couldn't help but think how much the onscreen story of
this police shooting was again the result of what was done by a single citizen
with a cellphone — not by a network or a cable news channel with all their
multimillion-dollar talent and resources….
[…]
Chaudry acknowledges
that "journalists definitely have different roles than activists and
advocates."
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