Public Service Journalism in the Age of Entrepreneurship

Abstract

This article aims to interrogate the phenomenon of “entrepreneurial journalism” – a trend in teaching journalism in post-secondary schools as well as an approach to journalism production to understand changes to the field that have emerged due to digitization and whether they represent a threat to public service journalism. By drawing on qualitative open-ended interviews with journalism educators from three Canadian journalism schools, this article draws on the perspectives of educators in an attempt to understand the extent to which this model is being adopted in Canadian schools, educators perspectives on entrepreneurial journalism, and what values are at the forefront of their teaching practices.