This past weekend the New York Review of Books did a feature by Michael Massing titled The News About the Internet which begins with this dismal data from America:

Of all the dismal and discouraging numbers to have emerged from the world of newspapers—the sharp plunges in circulation, the dizzying fall-off in revenues, the burgeoning debt, the mounting losses—none seems as sobering as the relentless march of layoffs and buyouts. According to the blog Paper Cuts, newspapers lost 15,974 jobs in 2008 and another 10,000 in the first half of 2009. That’s 26,000 fewer reporters, editors, photographers, and columnists to cover the world, analyze political and economic affairs, root out corruption and abuse, and write about culture, entertainment, and sports.

Healthy democracies and healthy national education systems are interdependent and synonymous with a healthy newspaper industry.

The article really is worth reading HERE

Also on November 18^th Stanford University posted at YouTube a 1 hr. 47 minute video of The Carlos Kelly McClatchy Memorial Lectures and Symposia, titled New Times: The Future of Journalism .The symposium was established in 1964, to bring Stanford University distinguished national and world leaders in the field of journalism. This year’s conference was held on October 22, 2009. The traditional print newspaper is struggling to stay profitable in the face of competition from electronic sources of information. What does this mean to the future of journalism? Philip Balboni of the GlobalPost; Alberto Ibarguen of the Knight Foundation; Paul Steiger of ProPublica; Arthur Sulzberger of the New York Times and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times Digital Operations discuss these questions in a conversation moderated by Joel Brinkley of Stanford.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHM6o6qPMLw

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