This is a great op-ed piece that ran in a recent USA Today that very keenly discusses the changing face of journalism is not at the detriment of news or the journalist profession. But make no mistake – it is changing.

As journalism changes, so must you
By Brent Cunningham and Alan C. Miller

As the lines separating news and entertainment, opinion and fact, and professional and amateur increasingly blur, every week presents a new chapter in the debate over the definitions of “journalist” and “journalism.” Is James O’Keefe an activist filmmaker, a partisan provocateur or an investigative reporter? Did the National Enquirer‘s John Edwards love-child scoop deserve a Pulitzer Prize? What does it mean that the anonymous people who uploaded cellphone video of a young woman dying during protests in Iran won a George Polk Award, one of journalism’s highest honors?

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