4,000 papers even 40,000. Yet I m optimistic about the future. We editors have many reasons to be grateful for the enduring strength of our newspapers. The industry is strong and robust. Our pages are more substantive, brighter and more professional than ever.
Advertising revenues are strong.
We remain the most mass of all mass media. Television is being battered harder than we by the movement to the use of the Internet for news. But a newspaper editor can hardly take comfort in knowing his airplane will crash slightly later than the other person s. All of this is why I created a Leadership Committee this year and asked Jennie Buckner to chair it. Jennie, who succeeded me seven years ago as editor of The Charlotte Observer, is full of energy and commitment in driving one of ASNE s most important groups.