print is only mostly dead

this week in his Digital Journalism class, Howard Rheingold brought Dan Gillmor in to discuss his book, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People.

when Friedrich Nietzsche penned God is Dead, he was mourning the passing of the age of religion. now, bloggers and amateur journalists are jumping on the Print is Dead bandwagon. like Nietzsche, they are both premature and perhaps ultimately wrong. but if professional journalists and journalism schools don't embrace and incorporate the new participatory model, we may have to declare that Journalism is Dead.