I heard a great term last summer, the journalist entrepreneur. It was at a conference panel discussion. The panel included the photo editor of McClatchy newspapers, a graphics editor from the Washington Post, a man who started his own photo syndicate, two online journalists, and a magazine editor. As one panelist put it, "You won't get a 9-5 job in journalism where you come into the office, get an assignment, go out report, then write for a newspaper anymore." The gist of the discussion was that individuals will create their own niches, and shape their own jobs in journalism.
More evidence of that today as the Record of Hackensack, N.J., announces that it is abandoning its physical office, shifting to mobile journalists who will find space at another of the company's offices when it needs it. It's been done in other businesses, and, frankly, a lot of reporters have always worked from their homes (especially free lance ones). I think it's part of the evolution as the industry moves to find ways to build up its bottom line.
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