New Structures for News Organizations—-What is the Essence of Journalism

Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra in Uncategorized

“We are doing a lot of things wrong,” begins Jim Willse, editor of the Star Ledger, while talking about the current state of the newspaper industry.

He then continues to speak about his own experience at the Star Ledger.  “We thought we were commercially sound until recently,” says Willse.

Today, 334 people showed up to for work at the Star Ledger. Willse estimates that by the end of the year only 200 people will be showing up for work at the Star Ledger.

So the question is, as Bob Garfield from On The Media, put it, “How do we get from here to there?”

Garfied answers his own question by rhetorically asking, “What the hell are we doing laying off the journalists when we should be laying off the presses?”