This is Jack of In Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.

Mark Cooper, longtime journalist and USC professor of journalism, joins me in conversation about the changing world of journalism today, looking at the dynamic evolution of knowledge, the written and spoken word in our digital

age. How does the predominant carrier of information which used to be newsprint, then

television now digital change our concept of knowledge.

And as the new technologies make it possible for the democratization and deprofessionalization of journalism,

we ask, who's a journalist?

How do we interact with the new media landscape,

and how do we make it work for those of us trying to build a more just society.

All this, when Jacobin Radio returns in just a moment. Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.

Mark Cooper is a veteran journalist and author. For 10 years he hosted the popular

radio nation's show on Pacifica. He's written three non-fiction books including his best-selling memoir of his time as translator to Chilean

socialist president Salvadoriende in the early 70s and he's written about politics

culture and media not to mention Las Vegas, for 45 years,

for dozens of publications, and from more than 40 countries around the world.

Mark was also a founding senior editor for the Huffington Post and during the 2008 campaign

he was editorial director of the Huff Post's Off-the-bus Citizen Journalism Project and we're going to talk a little bit about that.

As an associate professor Mark also went on to found and direct the Digital News Studies

program at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism.

He's now an emeritus professor of journalism,

but he's about to start a new media project of his own,

which we're going to talk about later in this show. But now what better guests to tackle

our main topic today which is just exactly what is the state of the mainstream

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