I was pointed to a recent column in the Philadelphia Weekly written by a Temple journalism professor who argues that there has never been a more inspiring time to be a journalist.
It’s an argument I tried to make in Journalism 2.0 and one I still believe.
Of course it’s a difficult argument to make these days since the institutions that conduct a majority of the journalism in the U.S. have fallen on such hard time.
But the author argues, that’s not the point. News companies are struggling, but journalism is thriving. Then he offers some sage advice:
The future of journalism isn’t working for the Man, I tell my students. It’s being the Man.
As someone who is in the process of leaving the newspaper business after 15 years, I couldn’t agree more.
I’m casting my fate in a movement called entrepreneurial journalism because the practice of informing an audience with interesting, important information will always be part of our society.
But the current business models are broken. So let’s go find what’s next.
Mark Briggs 
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