Welcome to the Bugler

Welcome to The Bugler, a blog dedicated to the future of journalism! My partner Esther Kim and I (the pic is us at Mediabistro's TVNewser summit) have been working together since September on a senior project about journalism's future for our communications minor at Tufts University. Generally we're interested the future of content delivery, business models, and the evolution of journalism culture. Our project is two-pronged, with me looking primarily at newspapers while she focuses on television news, but we've been collaborating every step of the way. This blog is our forum to bounce ideas off each other Becker-Posner style while we work on finishing the project!

Anyone even remotely familiar with the dialogue surrounding the death of newspapers or struggling network news knows that there is an incredible overload of information. Everyone has an opinion and some new development comes to light every hour of every day. That reality means two things for us: first the process of the project has been great training for careers in today's media free-for-all. We write, something changes, we sit down, talk, edit, update, synthesize... and repeat. Second, in the scope of this project, we see ourselves as content analyzers- we're trying to take the pulse of the extremely active journalism conversation and present a comprehensive look at a subject that can be at first seem overwhelming.

You're also probably wondering, why The Bugler? No, Esther and I are not closet trumpet aficiandos. Nor are we related to the military. The bugle was traditionally used as a wake-up call and a way to announce the news. Our research has been a wake-up call for us about the state of jouralism today, and we hope this blog can have the same effect. Enjoy!