JPROF: Bad news
Jim Stovall said: Journalists sometimes have to tell their audiences the bad news: an audio slideshow.
Journalists have to tell their audiences bad news. It's not fun or pleasant to do this, but you're going to be a journalist, that's what you have to do.
Ex-Editor of Chicago Tribune Leads Upstart Competitor - NYTimes.com
Jim Stovall said: Finally, the local news business is getting what it hasn't had for a long time -- competition.
A few years after they began appearing around the country, Internet-based local news organizations have grown in number, size, financing and credibility. Now, some of those organizations are drawing big-name journalists, including veterans of the established news outlets they are competing with - sometimes even hiring people directly from those organizations.
