Change

For both Kinsey Wilson, of USAToday.com and Bill Grueskin, of WallStreetJournal.com, September 11 brought about radical change in the newsroom. It split the newsroom, relocated everyone from their offices, and changed what they were used to in terms of reporting the news.

I’m starting to see that 9-11 was a catalyst for journalism as a whole. It was a time when everything was news, and any information to reduce the chaos was helpful to the whole country. The fact that newsrooms were literally divided, relocated, and ultimately reorganized forced the industry to undergo a change that was coming anyway. It seems like it was an inevitable change, but, thanks to that day, it happened a lot sooner than it would have were it to be left to itself.