Every new generation vexes media leaders, and Gen Z is certainly no exception. These teens and 20-somethings, born between 1992 and 2012, have challenged traditional media organizations with their short-form, multi-platform, hyper-social news habits.
But Gen Z journalists have also challenged newsrooms from the inside, where they’ve introduced new philosophies of working, disrupted traditional notions of objectivity and pushed the media industry to grow more equitable, inclusive … and edgy. As one older news leader put it at the API Local News Summit for Table Stakes Alumni in Minneapolis: “My values are challenged just about every day. It illustrates these huge generational divisions.”
Yet many Gen Z journalists — much like millennials, Gen Xers and even boomers before them — argue that their bosses sometimes underestimate them.
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