Bob Wigginton is one of the Professors here in Lindenwood University. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years. He shared his experience in the field and what journalism has gone through nowadays. He also shared his experience to be a journalist in Afghanistan for thirty days.

At first, I don’t really care about the journalism because it will not going to affect me in any way. But after Bob pointed out that the news that we watch on television or internet most of the time they get it from newspaper, I realize that we are going to get big problem. Internet and television are my two sources that I get the news from because I don’t like to read newspaper. Bob told us that over six thousand journalists have lost their job in newspaper industry for the past two years. We need these journalists to keep us informed with the latest news and what is going on in our communities, our country, and around the world.


There are a lot of people including us becomes a citizen journalism. We blog our opinion and ideas on the internet and share with others, but we can’t rely on them because their news isn’t always accurate and true. Even though sometimes we get the news faster than the media but we have to double check the truth from real journalists that investigate and learn that news deeper than citizen journalism. According to “The Vanishing Newspaper” book by Philip Meyer, journalism professor at the University of North Carolina,” The reason why United States newspaper vanishing because American losing faith in their ability to judge national discourse and honest recorders and national life.”

Our generations always depend on technology and most likely get the news from internet or television instead from newspaper. So that is why newspaper has to change their form of media to new technology that easy to use and we can get it at anytime and anywhere. I personally will look forward to what kind of form that newspaper will change to in the future.