During all the rushing around at NCMR, I was able to sit down for a couple minutes with Bennet Gordon of the Utne Reader about the shift in journalism over the last few years. He attended the panel I moderated, “How the Independent Media Creates Change.” We talked about the different range of the panelists, from advocacy journalism to “straight journalism.”

The question is: Where’s the line? I spoke with Tracy Van Slyke, director of the Media Consortium, and she said that the blurring of advocacy and journalism could be a good thing. She said the mix hearkens back to the original intent of journalism, which is to “inform and to activate” people. At the same time, she stressed that journalists should be transparent about their biases and affiliations.

Read the whole interview here. Thoughts?