The death of the print journalist?

Another week, another Online Journalism lecture, another round of “are print journalists doomed?” questions from the Newspaper Diploma students.

Perhaps they haven’t noticed, but every pillar of the journalism community they’ve asked so far has answered that question with an emphatic ‘no’. But that obviously hasn’t been enough to stop the worry keeping the poor lambs awake at night.

Perhaps Pete Clifton’s comment that he has in fact employed more journalists to deal with the rise of UGC and to meet the demand of other forms of new media will finally convince them that they can have a future in journalism, if not in print itself then at least in some form of written news provision. We’ll find out at next week’s Q&A session.