Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

by C.W. Anderson

vision of itself-as an institutionally grounded profession that empirically informs (and even, perhaps, "assembles") the public-is a noble vision of tremendous democratic importance. But the unreflexive commitment to a particular and historically contingent version of this self-image now undermines these larger democratic aspirations. The

evolution. To push that evolution forward, journalists

collaborate with people and groups outside their formal institutional walls. Around the edges of these industrial-era practices, however,

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