MINNEAPOLIS — With revenues dwindling for TV newscasts and newspapers, who will fund journalism in the United States? The evolving state of journalism here was the lecture given today to a group of senior lifelong students by Kathleen Hansen, director of graduate studies. Unlike Sweden, the UK and Canada, there are no public subsidies for news reporting in the United States. The massive technological shift is forcing journalism to change, Hansen said. Newspapers remain the largest employers of reporters in most communities, but their future is dubious. On the other hand, a study shows that civic engagement declined in Denver and Seattle when newspapers closed. People stopped going to meetings. Young people must be optimistic because the U of M School of Journalism and Mass Communications has 1,000 students, more than any other discipline in the College of Liberal Arts. The Guardian promo gives a slant on the current dilemma.
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