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My name is Gina Chen. I’ve spent my career in journalism,  and I’m worried — but excited — about the future of the industry I love. I believe new media can help journalism evolve, so it can continue to be a watchdog of Democracy. But journalists have to be open to change and trying new technology.

I’m starting a Ph.D. program in Fall 2009 at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with plans to become a university professor. I’m interested in studying how people, particularly women, interact and connect online through blogs and social media, and to what extent this provides them a voice that they cannot get through traditional media.

I’ve worked at newspapers for 20 years, including the past 15 at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y.  Since 2007, I was Family Life editor there and blogged about being a mom for the newspaper’s Web site.

I  spent 12 years as an editor, including six years as a suburban bureau chief and four as an assistant city editor, overseeing coverage of higher education, crime, courts, religion. Before that, I worked for eight years as a reporter, covering crime, courts and state and local government.

I have a master’s degree in public communications from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio.

My husband and I have two kids.

All views I express in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent in any way the opinions of Syracuse University or my former employer.

Contact me at savethemedia@yahoo.com or on Twitter.
I also blog at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab.

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