Principles of Journalism class

1. April 3, 2012

2. Citizen Journalism
A case study

3. Who is a journalist?

4. A short history
of citizen journalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_FsY6ksDzk

7. Newsroom layoffs
57 full-time
28 part-time
43% of workforce

8. Convergence

12. Meet
Mike Winder, Mayor
West Valley City

30. Citizen Journalism
Who’s responsible?

31. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=18048829

32. Mark Willes
• Wharton School of Business
• Federal Reserve Bank of
Minnesota
• General Mills
• Times-Mirror & Los Angeles Times
• Deseret Management Corp
Photo courtesy Deseret Media Companies

33. Deseret Management Corp

34. Deseret Management Corp

37. Disruptive innovation
An innovation that
helps create a new
market that goes on
to disrupt an existing
market, displacing an
earlier technology
Clayton Christensen

39. Deseret Connect’s
Harvard—BYU-Idaho
Mormon Connection
Kim Clark Clark Gilbert Matt Sanders

40. Editor
Paul Edwards
• PhD, JD - Berkeley
• BYU Political Science faculty
• Provost, Southern Virginia
University
• Mercatus Institute
Photo courtesy Deseret Media Companies

41. “A non-
profit, market-
oriented
research,
education, and
outreach
think tank
affiliated with
the Koch
family.”
-Wikipedia

42. Editorial Focus
• The family
• Financial responsibility
• Faith in our communities
• Excellence in education
• Care for the needy
• Values in the media

43. Results
• Print circulation
increases
• National Sunday
edition
• Growing digital
division
• Integrated parts of
broadcast and
print newsrooms

44. Who is a journalist?