Colleague and Asst. Professor Elizabeth Hendrickson recommended this column, recounting one person's decision to leave the family newspaper business and start an online community news website. While acknowledging that newspapers face in a transforming media environment, his motivation for leaving had to do more with shifting ownership structures. He argues that Publishers are increasingly not from the communities they cover, but are visitors in the towns they cover. As a result, the ties between newspapers and their communities are being lost. Recognizing the role that the Internet and Web play in fostering and developing new communities, this former publisher concludes in saying that he walked away from his family's generations-long heritage serving communities through newspapers, because he thinks a community news website start-up has a better chance to resurrect the ties between news and community.
The article's short, and I recommend reading it.
Source: "Why I Gave up the Newspaper to Save Newspapering" Mediashift (a PBS Blog)
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