When I leave Columbia’s M.A. program, I’m hoping to spend some time covering the media as an industry, not only because I find the new technologies compelling, but because I believe changes in media today map onto changes in business, politics and society. With technological change as my lens, I’ll be working towards the goals of the Victorians, using an eye on media as a window on the world.

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In July, we invited laid-off and bought-out journalists to reflect on their experience in the form of a letter to colleagues. Now we are issuing a similar invitation to the young people who’ve come into the profession in the last five years or so, and the young journalism students who soon will. We invite them to air their concerns and hopes about journalism, too. The central questions: What do you see in this business that makes you still want to pursue it? How do you imagine people will get quality news five years down the road? How will you try to fit in? Send your submissions to editors@cjr.org. We’ll publish these periodically under the headline “Starting Thoughts,” and we’ll archive everything we publish here.

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