AJR: Newspaper journalists are not to blame for industry downturn
October 3rd, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick
The problems lie with business models not with newspapers’ journalism, argues Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi.
“Even a paper stocked with the world’s finest editorial minds wouldn’t have a fighting chance against the economic and technological forces arrayed against the business. The critics have it exactly backward: Journalists and journalism are the victims, not the cause, of the industry’s shaken state.”
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