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“Sweeping Changes” to News Media Only the Beginning, Professor says

The traditional business models for the news industry are crumbling, and Jeff South, an associate professor in the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, says that the future of news promises to encompass a variety of different financial strategies – many of which remain so far untested.

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Social Media’s Increasing Influence on Global Events

Marcus Messner, an assistant professor in the School of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, believes that posts and links to social networking sites by protesters in the streets of Iran may, in a dramatic paradigm shift, forever change how news is gathered and disseminated.

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