...AND NOW, LET'S KILL NEWSPAPER EDITORS. ARE YOU SURE? I AM NOT.

The newspaper killing season is open.

The Economist cover story wanted to kill the newspaper.

Steve Outing wants now to kill newspaper print editors, and substitute them by former online editors.

And Jeff Jarvis announces "the death of the editorialists."

"As newspapers face economic torture, it is time to ask whether they can afford editorialists when spare resources should go toward supporting their true value: local reporting."

Well, I am not sure that all these deaths will change and improve newspapers.

Newspapers are not dead, but they will kill themselves when they don't see the need of radical re-evolutions.

Newspaper print editors are not dead, but we will kill themselves when they don't see the need on bi-media, on and off line integrated newsrooms.

Newspaper editorialists are not dead, but they will kill themselves when they don't lead interactive opinion pages and public discussion forums.

My impression is that everybody has to re-think its role in this new media landscape.

From publishers and editors to reporters and visual journalists.

Let's not kill anything or anybody else.

We don't need more casualties.

Nobody is safe, sure, but at the same time the best way to survive is not a war but a passionate, engaging and compelling new way of journalism life.

This is an industry with too many years of confrontations.

Editors versus Publishers.

News versus Features.

Hard News versus Soft News.

On Line versus Off Line Journalism.

Words versus Images.

Pictures versus Graphics.

News versus Opinion.

Advertising versus News.

Mono-Media versus Multi-Media Companies.

Editors versus Reporters.

Print versus Broadcasting.

Infographists versus Illustrators...

Let's work together.

Let's integrate.

Newspapering is a team game.

We need less solo-players, and more orchestra-players.

Including the conductor-editors.