Journalism’s Lost Generation : The Un-doing of U.S. Newspaper Newsrooms

Journalism’s Lost Generation discusses how the changes in the industry not

only indicate a newspaper crisis, but also a crisis of local communities, a loss

of professional skills, and a void in institutional and community knowledge

emanating from newsrooms.  This text also provides a broad view of the

newspaper journalism being produced today, and those who are attempting

to produce it.

Journalism’s Lost Generation discusses how the changes in the industry not only indicate a newspaper crisis, but also a crisis of local communities, a loss of professional skills, and a void in institutional and community knowledge emanating from newsrooms. Reinardy’s thorough and opinionated take on the transition seen in newspaper newsrooms is coupled with an examination of the journalism industry today. This text also provides a broad view of the newspaper journalism being produced today, and those who are attempting to produce it.