Journalism Beyond the Traditional Newsroom

While jobs at newspapers and news stations are shrinking, the doors to self-publishing online are wide open. Journalists have reinvented their careers on Web-only news platforms. Find out how they did it in a discussion with Dean Takahashi, writer for VentureBeat (www.venturebeat.com) and former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News; Jane Ellen Stevens, a fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute developing a news site incubator; Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine(http://rejournalism.wordpress.com); Tracy Record, a former assistant news director for KCPQ-TV who started the West Seattle Blog (www.westseattleblog.com); and moderator Joe Grimm, visiting journalist at Michigan State University School of Journalism.