'A dodo on the edge of extinction?': Lyn Gardner on journalism Rozina Sabur from the University of Warwick's The Boar speaks with arts and culture writer Lyn Gardner about the ever-changing face of journalism: Lyn Gardner, a regular theatregoer all her life, has been a critic at the Guardian for their 'Culture' section since 1996. Before that she wrote for The Independent. After graduating in Drama and English from Kent University she began her career in journalism. She was a founding member of listings magazine City Limits, the largest co-op in Europe. As a journalist who has experienced first hand the changes that have been affected by new modes of media, what do you make of the current media climate and its future? I think print journalism is changing because of the huge cultural shifts that are taking place because of technological advances. It's just that we had one model for a very long time and now we are shifting to another and we don't know exactly what it is and how it may look in the end. It's a challenge -- but not a catastrophe by any means. Look at the invention of the printing press, which was really bad for monks who painted manuscripts, but fantastic for reading. What's going on with the web at the moment might not be good for print, newspapers, but it's fantastic for journalism. Presumably because more journalists can have a platform on the internet? Of course, you can have a plurality of