Backpack Journalism

From: Lauren Foreman

While I do think backpack journalism goes a little too far, exclusively seeking to perfect my chosen medium of print when there is an obvious need for journalists to be equipped with the skills to serve a more technology advanced audience is not the route I have chosen to take personally. Being that news is centered in serving an audience, it would be impossible for me to pretend like I can portray different stories effectively using one medium of journalism. If anything, that is mediocrity.

What would not work for me are producer driven stories because this can be limiting to the reporter or team of reporters and ultimately the audience. When you have this kind of official of the newsroom being the sole dictator of how a news package is put together, you lose the variety of opinion, which is in a way representative of the public. You also run the risk of having a very special part of the story being cut out simply because the producer was not there and did not know how special it was.