Great Scott!! Impostor Journalists?
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?