Five Ws and an H: Digital Challenges in Newspaper Newsrooms and Boardrooms

摘要

It is no news to anyone involved with the media, fromrnthe newsroom to the boardroom to the classroom, thatrnjournalism is at a crossroads as an occupation, a business,rna content form, and a public good. This is perhapsrnparticularly true of journalism in the traditional newsrnmedium of record, the newspaper, where enormousrnuncertainty surrounds virtually every facet of the enterprisernas it adjusts to being part of a digital network. Thisrnessay uses a framework familiar to journalists and journalismrneducators—the traditional “five Ws and an H” ofrnwho, what, when, where, why, and how—to address somernof the significant issues facing corporate and newsroomrnmanagers, as well as journalists themselves.