Last Wednesday Jay Rosen lectured a packed classroom in Lincoln Hall. There was a mix of students, professors and faculty ranging all different ages. Jay Rosen is currently an associate professor of Journalism at New York University, has a Ph.D. in Media Studies, has written multiple books regarding journalism and media studies, sits on the Wikipedia advisory board and has a very large and active blog that has been cited numerous times in scholarly articles. His lecture outlined various reasons why he believes winter is coming for American journalists and Americans in general. These points include: an economic crisis that has led to poor quality reporting especially at the local level, low trust in government institutions, a historically low level of trust in media. Rosen went on to explain that the only way journalists can rebound from their epic failure of falsely predicting the election is if they can start reporting and capturing the true beat of the American people. Does he think this has happened? No, he said that while there was a discussion about changing the way journalists work to report the sentiments of the public there was no time because after the election there was no slow down in events.

Dr. Jay Rosen lecturing the crowd about Donald Trump and the future of Journalism.