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# Can We Still Learn From Journalistic Icons?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2010/01/can_we_still_learn_from_journalistic_ico/
- Published: 2010-01-05T11:53:14.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:44:12.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: icons, Journalism, journalism students, Journalists

An e-mail arrives from Amber Johnson, pointing me to a list of the [10 Iconic Jourmalists Every JStudent Should Study](http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2010/01/04/10-iconic-journalists-every-jstudent-should-study/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). I imagine most journalism bloggers got one this morning.

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.