…a profession of writing or communicating, formally employed by publications and broadcasters, for the benefit of a particular community of people.

Ethical and professional issues have often arisen within the field of journalism and media communications in concert with an emergent new medium.  The new multi-mediality, however possesses major implications for journalism in particular the key tenets of objectivity and responsibility, guarding the so-called Fourth Estate, as well as presenting new challenges in the realm of quality, freedom, reportage, attribution, defamation, etc.

Stop the Press! is an experimental design for game-based learning in Second Life providing students with a simulation of reporting.  Students will experience how to build and work in a team to report on issues, the random nature of information via interaction with a special game feature of the ”newsgenerator” and also seek to order, interrelate and manipulate information via a 3D Mindmap.