Editor & Publisher
"There were times when owners were actually identifiable human beings," says former Los Angeles Times editor
John Carroll. "Unfortunately, the old owners are gone. If they did return, they’d be amazed at what has happened to the very idea of newspapers. Much of their work, unlike ours, is mathematical." The mission of today's editors, he says, "is more daunting than that of our predecessors. It is to save journalism. You and I know this isn’t going to be easy." (Read the
speech.)
