About me


 
My name is Gina Masullo Chen. I’m a veteran print and online journalist and a doctoral candidate in Mass Communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. My hope is to land a job as an assistant professor, teaching future professional communicators about the dynamic and changing world of journalism today. My research focuses on online engagement and its dark side — online rejection and how it may lead to verbal aggression.

I believe journalism will not only survive its current crisis but thrive, although it may end up looking very different than journalism of the past. To survive, journalists — and the corporations that employ them — have to change how they see their businesses and their readers.

They need to give their employees freedom to experiment with social media and emerging online platforms. They need to stop doing things the way we always did them. They need to figure out what their readers seek, not expect readers to want what they give them.

I’ve spent a career — 20 years — working at newspapers, including 15 at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y.  My most recent job there gave me a firsthand look at the changing face of journalism, as I crafted an online parenting page and blog aimed at tapping into the virbrant web community of mothers.

Before that, 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.

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@gmail.com or on Twitter.

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