Poynter Online
Veteran editor
John Carroll tells journalism students that they'll be working with tools unlike any imagined by earlier generations. "You will have new tools for finding things out, and tools to send your stories to the entire world at the speed of light," he says. "Journalism has always been a one-way bulletin from journalist to public. Now it is a conversation with millions of participants, which gives us access to new facts and new ideas." HE NOTES: "The current period in journalism is, in fact, historic. It is epochal. It is remarkable, perhaps even unprecedented. I'm speaking, of course, of the passage of journalism into the digital age."
