Abstract

Stop the Presses

Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, geneticists and journalists, for a book called "Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet." The lucky geneticists, passionate about and excited by their jobs, couldn't wait to get out of bed in the morning to get to work. The journalists, by contrast, were near despondency. The deans of the U.S.'s top nine journalism schools met in crisis mode recently-at a three-day gathering at the University of California journalism school at Berkeley, sponsored by the Western Knight Center, in hopes of figuring out what might be done to stem the tide of willful destruction of what remains of the U.S.'s commercial news infrastructure by its corporate ownership.