Journalism is a process, not a product, and just because newspapers may become extinct doesn’t mean journalism will as well, said one of three industry entrepreneurs Thursday afternoon as part of the Schieffer School of Journalism Green Chair “Far Out: The Frontiers of Journalism” panel.

“I think too often we equate journalism with the newspaper…journalism is a process, it is a series of things we do,” said David Cohn, founder and director of the Web site Spot.us, a nonprofit open source project to pioneer community powered reporting.

The panel also included Jennifer 8. Lee, a former reporter for The New York Times and author of “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,” and Scott Lewis, CEO of voiceofsandiego.org, a public-service nonprofit news organization that focuses on in-depth and investigative reporting.

Lewis said Twitter has shaped the way people obtain their news today.

“Now, instead of my dad turning to a paper to bundle (information) for him, the tools are going to get better and better and easier to use, to where you can hone your own information stream,” Lewis said.

Lee followed with a presentation, using examples of Web sites she said have contributed to the changing infrastructure of journalism and reporting. One such site is Ushahidi.com, which she said provides an open source platform that allows citizens to Tweet, e-mail or text message reports of violence and peace efforts from almost anywhere. The reports are placed on a Google map.