If games were to practice journalism as a discipline, and advertise itself as such, it would have to be very much the same kind of journalism that newspapers, television and journalistic Web pages offer.
Rather than just tack-on a games desk or hire an occasional developer on contract, we contend that news-games will offer valuable contributions only when they are embraced as a viable method of practicing journalism albeit a different kind of journalism than newspapers, television and Web pages offer.
But two of the answers are philanthropy, drawing on America's mighty trusts to fund investigative journalism, and tying newspapers ever more closely with universities where journalists are training.
The business of journalism is changing, and many newspapers will vanish in the coming months and years.
They've succeeded by attracting large audiences while keeping editorial costs low, often by rereporting or commenting on the journalism produced at great cost by newspapers and other "old media" companies--"aggregating, " in the parlance of the trade.
State supervision of newspapers offends their readers and journalism serves democracy best when its values are those the public consider decent.
And the few remaining strands of tabloid journalism are being cut, as slimmed-down newspapers focus on local fare.
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian - which exposed the phonehacking scandal in the face of furious and sustained denials from News International - says it's an "incredibly anxious time for journalism, with even the most powerful and professional newspapers clinging on to financial viability".
Journalism professor Roy Greenslade said he was uneasy about serious newspapers "taking a smear rather too seriously and giving it more prominence than it was due".
Most newspapers have survived, so far, but the journalism has suffered greatly.
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For a long time it was an open question whether American journalism would follow the professed objectivity of the Ochs family's newspapers or the outspoken advocacy of Hearst's.
You know, one of the things about newspapers is they really are the muscle that drives much of journalism in this country, that sort of inspires broadcast outlets to cover stories.
Local newspapers will have a role, but already there is not enough journalism content to feed the hunger of small communities like Utica, N.
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In the unhappy world of American newspapers, where cost-cutting has become a way of life, lavishing money on journalism would constitute a radical new strategy.
Linda Bernstein has written hundreds of articles for dozens of magazines and newspapers, writes the blog GenerationBsquared and teaches social media at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
Rob Brown, a journalism lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, said this was "atypical" of the national picture in which local newspapers were struggling due to loss of advertising revenue.
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