This week’s New York Times magazine takes a stab at “What are you really worth” this week and includes a lengthy piece on journalists. I’ll spare you the context of the how the market has devalued traditional journalism while creating new opportunities and simply recommend you read the entire article by Andrew Rice. The money quote:
… for some — possibly foolhardy — reason, a lot of people still want to work in journalism, and even amid the depths of the recession, there have been stirrings of creativity. A multitude of younger, nimbler enterprises have popped up, unencumbered by the past and ready to try anything. History suggests that few of these ventures will ultimately survive: Web start-ups have a failure rate between 70 and 90 percent. But it’s quite possible that the experiments they’re staging are already producing the kind of innovations that make for new, sustainable business models.
For continuing coverage of independent journalism startups, check out the section we developed on Lost Remote to cover this emerging sector.
Mark Briggs 
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I think journalist aint worth didly these days. They only write what they’ve been told to write about, then they parrot these concepts in their articles. So much for free thinking.
As a journalism major I have to point out that we’re not novelist of course we write what we’re told to write that has never changed. We’re not trying to write fiction the things we write are things people want to know about. There are people who do their own vigilante journalism, but as far as PROFESSIONAL journalist we listen to our editor and if different news sources end up writing the same story pick the one you like and stick with it. I mean if journalist aren’t important who will write the news?