Jeff Jarvis covers a recent breakfast in New York about the future of newspapers with Gary Pruitt, the CEO of McClatchy, and Dean Baquet, the former Los Angeles Times editor and now Washington D.C. bureau chief for The New York Times.
Yes, they are right.
The industry is too pesimistic.
There are too many fears.
Too much panic.
And some common sense is urgently needed.
Common sense and, my dear, a lot of change and innovation.
Gary Pruitt still is reluctant to accept the role of the Internet.
And this is not good for a company that now owns one of the first online news services in the world, nando.net.
I remember my first trip with Vince Giuliano to North Carolina to meet with them.
It was a fascinating operation.
Like the mercurynews project.
Now these two papers belong to the same company but this new CEO still has doubts…
Well, as Jeff says, if I had McClatchy stock perhaps the best reaction to these myopic statements would be to sell it as soon as possible.
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