A familiar voice
August 26th, 2009 at 07:43am Jennie Pollock
Jim Killam, adviser for the Northern Star, Northern Illinois University’s daily newspaper, spoke with WNIJ about the future of the journalism and its uncertainty.
At the Register Star, we’ve worked for years with Killam because his recommendations on students carry currency for us in hiring.
Of course, he worries about less investigative journalism and the ability to make money when people expect news to be free. In the end, he makes a good point:
“What our main product is is not paper and ink; it’s news and information.”
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