Romenesko

Nieman Reports
Robert Rosenthal notes that the best journalists are ambitious innovators and risk takers with a sense of urgency. "The skills that journalists possess seem a perfect fit during this time of immense chaos and change in our business," he writes. "Yet during the time when newspapers have been collapsing, top editors who had a say seemed rarely to be heard. Drastic strategic changes that some editors proposed were dismissed or ignored, often due to the potential their idea had for a short-term downturn in revenue. In truth, their ideas weren't likely to be listened to when the core value of the company that owned their newspaper was increasing its profit margin and receiving a thumbs-up from Wall Street analysts."
> Eric Alterman: "What is perhaps most depressing about the reaction of the [newspaper] industry has been its timid acquiescence to these trends." (The Nation)