While you're thinking about final projects, consider doing research around the issue of saving journalism. There are plenty of directions to go with this either as a team project or by yourself.
If our profession has an obligation to provide the "Fourth Estate" of American government, how can we not find it important to figure out a way to save it?
Here are some links to get you started thinking on this. (I know, I know, you're off on spring break and so am I, but I can't stop following the news. Call me compulsive.)
Is the death of newspapers inevitable?
TWITTER: @GinaMChen
Eight barriers to local paid content
Why didn't newspapers try charging for online content? Well, they did ...
TWITTER: @yelvington
Read what Jay Rosen writes. Who is he? "I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter."
BLOG: PressThink
TWITTER: @jayrosen_nyu
Poynter.org -- A model for future news orgs: Wikis in Seattle and San Francisco Help Build Model for News Organizations of the Future
TIME magazine: Who Really Killed the Rocky Mountain News?
This is NOT an exhaustive list, but only a handful of voices and points of view. When you find more good ones, please add them as a comment here or a new post that links to this one.
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