Can We Still Learn From Journalistic Icons?

And this list is, well, very American and fairly predictable. But I do think the post makes a point that’s worth re-iterating:

>  …but dismissing the history of newspapers and broadcasting would be a huge mistake

It would, yes.

I don’t believe that the changes sweeping through journalism right now changes the fundemantals of journalism *at all*. What does change is the means of expression of those fundementals, and we still have quite a long way to go in unpicking those elements of journalism that a function of a particular medium and those that are the inherent basics. And there are still a lot of people confusing the characteristic of a medium with a core journalistic practice.