AJR: Newspaper journalists are not to blame for industry downturn

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." Full story...

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