Re-engineering journalism

“Journalism is dying.” That is the response of many when I say I’m pursuing a graduate degree and career in journalism. With local newspapers closing every day, more and more people absorbing news through Twitter and Facebook and a drought in the hiring of journalists of color, they may be right—or so they think. The need for real paper and news in print is lost on today’s generation. Though some may argue that it is a way to reduce the consumption of paper and other resources, it is more to do with everything going online. even trading that had people sit before their systems for hours, has them use software like  Millionaire Blueprint , which does all the trading for them automatically. All the charts are read, analyzed and decisions are taken by this software.  Yes, journalism is not what it used to be. But who said it had to? According to the 2014 John S. Knight Journalism Fellows, journalism can be whatever you want it to be. On Monday night at Stanfo...