@Thomas Jefferson Sends A Tweet: A New Model For Journalism
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The purpose of this thesis is to design a new model for modern journalism to achieve sustainability in a rapidly changing technological and global market place. The thesis offers literature review, new tools and systems perspectives for current news media managers that include Systems Thinking Frameworks and Idealized Design. The theory of Disruptive Technology is employed to explain why the industry is in the state that it is in. The thesis is encompassed in a discussion of the importance of journalism and explicates Thomas Jefferson’s notion that journalism is necessary to preserve democracy.