The 'awayness' problem

• Autores: Jay Rosen
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 52, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Try to imagine a world where journalism as an activity, and journalists as an occupational group, do not exist, but news does. For news is older and more basic to civilization than journalism. The key to it is the problem of scale. He had to invent a word to better describe this problem: "awayness." Not the most elegant term, but it will do. Picture a small New England fishing village with 200 inhabitants. There is news in that village: births, deaths, marriages, feuds, a new church, a ship recently arrived from Europe. But the scale on which people move about is tiny enough that such news can circulate on its own. Here, Rosen offers a range of perspectives on the definition of journalism.