It’s summer, and that means it’s intern season, and that means you might be lucky enough to feel a little extra hope for our industry if you’re spending any time with brand new journalists.
A case study out this summer suggests there deserves to be more than just a bit of hope, though.
That study, not yet published, is titled “Challenging Journalistic Boundaries: How Generation Z Journalists Are Taking On the U.S. News Desert Crisis,” and it shows how University of Kansas, Duquesne University and Northeastern University have built newsrooms for their communities.