It’s official: I’ve got blogger’s block. I’ve had at least two false starts on posts the last two days. Every topic I try to explore seems stale and my writing feels dry and uninteresting. I need inspiration. If anyone has ideas or suggestions on how I could get over this, let me know.

The newspaper industry may not survive the next decade. Even if it does, print surely will play a much smaller role in the future of news distribution when compared to the Internet and mobile technology. But that doesn’t mean that today’s print journalists can expect to be tomorrow’s barristas. Newspapermen and women can take steps [...]

For the reporter, it is (probably/maybe/hopefully) a way to serve the public good. For the publisher, newspaper owner or CEO, it is (at its core) a product that’s sold in hopes of generating profits. Owners can claim to share the ideals of journalists – and I’m sure many do – but in the end, they’re [...]

There are a fair number of critics like this guy who argue that newspapers are failing because they no longer offer honest, in-depth reporting. They’re only partially right. While the lack of in-depth reporting that stems from cuts in staff and news hole means that newspapers certainly are failing to reach their core audience, those [...]