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Project documents the state of the newsroom nationwide
EVERYONE HEARS ABOUT The New York Times and the Chicago Tribunes of the world, but what about the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Mich., or the Mountain Eagh in Whitesburg, Ky? How have they adapted to new technology? What is their newsrooms' mind-set for the future?
In an effort to find out, the Who Needs Newspapers project is going state to state to document newspapers and find out how they're surviving.
Backed by a six-member nonprofit coalition called Valid Sources, Who Needs Newspapers is collecting a 50-state newsroom status report, offering insight as to how, and in what form, newspapers will serve their communities in the future. Leading this newsroom road trip are longtime media experts Paul Steinle and Sara Brown, two of the...