Investigative reporting builds the brand. But doing the right thing is something for which the speed-crazed Internet world seldom has time. Investigative reporting and high-quality journalism could form the core of a new media company, and be good business as well. Content with editorial integrity does not seem to be driving the success of the Internet these days. It's exciting to think that it could.
Good journalism is alive and well on the Web.
They're all hiring journalists and doing journalism. I'm interested in seeing journalism continue and thrive so that we can preserve the means necessary to having an informed public. This concerns me because without an informed public, democracy fails. There may be exceptions, but by and large at the conference there was an intensely held and widely shared belief that newspapers missed the Internet and that the Internet has already passed them by. But the pessimism among the weekend participants was striking.