“I don’t think these are dark days. I think this is just what disruptive change feels like. The barrier has never been lower. You are all journalism entrepreneurs, innovators.”
—Bill Gannon, Director of Online Operations, Lucasfilm LTD.
“If we don’t change more dramatically and faster, there will not be an industry to support the sort of value-driven journalism that is at the heart of our craft. “The encouraging news is that the tools we need to make the needed changes are readily available to us and that our ability to deliver quality news and information can only be enhanced...if we make the bold leaps."
—Steven A. Smith, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.
“I think video is a central part of your new identity … On the web newspapers and magazines become like television and compete like never before.”
— Jeffrey Cole, Director, Center for the Digital Future, USC
“Kill complexity .. Focus on the things that have the greatest value for the users and get rid of everything else.”
– Stacy Lynch, consultant and project manager, Media Management Center
“I think it is really the trial, the pilot the experimentation, the iteration, the ability to fail. I think it’s really important.”
— Krisztina “Z” Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation, USC
“Experimentation and energy and innovation among journalists in the newsroom both in print and in the online side, that’s really something that did not exist in 2006 and 2004. What we’re finding now is stagnation on the business side. Clearly there is a new burst of energy inside journalism.”
— Amy Mitchell, Deputy Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
“You guys are stuck in a box, the Guttenberg box… His device has shaped your editorial practices. The limitations of his device have limited your practices.”
— Vin Crosbie, Digital Deliverance LLC
“If you don’t have good communication, you’re going to fall down and skin your knees. And we do that all the time, and we just get back up and keep moving.”
— David Ledford, Executive Editor, The News Journal (Wilmington, DE)
“We are at a point in time with declining circulation and declining revenues. It’s time to recognize how liberating for all of us that is. Because we can’t be constrained by the way we thought about things. We can’t be sustained by what our fears are. We can’t be sustained by our past successes. We’ve got to think about what we’re going to do in the future and about what we’re willing to do and about what we’re willing to change not only in our organizations but in ourselves.”
— Joe Howry, Editor, Ventura County Star
“I would suggest to you that the journalism that we do is fundamentally a closed system. We want to control the gathering, interpretation, production, the editing, and then the distribution of information because we have a desire to create a high-value closed-system product. And what we’re seeing happening right now is this explosion of creativity of not very good citizen journalism… pushing closed-system journalism off the stage.”
— Steve Yelvington, Morris Communications
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