Potential for and Challenges to Resilience

In this 50th year of the Journal of Communication Inquiry, we applaud the editors’ and contributors’ efforts to center the challenges that journalists face in the first quarter of the 21st century. Historically, being a member of the press, whether in the Majority World, in Europe, or the United States, has never been easy. There have been challenges to covering the world since the birth of news media. However, this period, as this issue aptly points out, is different. The challenges are distinct, as are the ways in which journalists are responding to and, in some cases, being resilient in the face of dire constraints.