"the changing world of journalism" - NYT editor

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Oct 2, 2013.

Dean Baquet, Pulitzer Prize winner and managing editor of The New York Times, spoke at the HUB-Robeson Center last night about the changing world of journalism as part of the Foster-Foreman Conference of Distinguished Writers.

Baquet spoke about how journalism is transforming and what effect the changes will have on young journalists.

“The web has been a transformation for journalism and I think multimedia is creating a new way to experience journalism,” he said. “The speed of the web has confronted new organizations with big decisions that we’ve never had to confront before and it’s exciting.”

The development of the Internet has presented a new range of important decisions that need to be made, but the tools that young journalists will learn from making these decisions will be worth it, he added.

While the Internet has proven to be beneficial in many ways for journalism, there are also some consequences, Baquet said.

“It is not my fear that newspapers will die,” he said. “My only fear is that the craft of witnessing and reporting on the truth will die.”

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_39cd0d7e-2b12-11e3-b4e6-001a4bcf6878.html