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Great Scott!! Impostor Journalists?

October 24th, 2008 by

By Maya J. Pope-Chappell

Impostor journalists are crashing high profile parties in New York. At least that’s what an article in AM New York claims. Although fairly poorly written, at least by Craft 1 reporting standards which shuns anonymous sourcing and quoting just one person, the article raises an interesting idea.

The idea of an impostor journalist.

Why would anyone want to fake being a journalist? I asked three journalists at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism what they thought about these posers and what it means to be a real journalists. Here are their thoughts. What are yours?

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2 Responses to “Great Scott!! Impostor Journalists?”

  1. I giornalisti scrocconi, in America, non fanno ridere « Un piemontese a NY Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    [...] blogger Maya J. Pope-Chappel ha chiesto il parere di tre giovani giornalisti, raccogliendo commenti di individui francamente [...]

  2. I finti giornalisti non fanno ridere « Un piemontese a NY Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    [...] blogger Maya J. Pope-Chappel ha chiesto il parere di tre giovani giornalisti, raccogliendo commenti di individui francamente [...]

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