Poynter increasingly is adding more online journalism seminars to its line-up. Profits from the publications fund the continued operation and expansion of the Poynter Institute. However, I also believe that journalists are extraordinarily well positioned to succeed in the Net economy. We come from an industry where we literally tear up our product and rebuild it every day. When you deal with breaking news, you come to see three to four hours as an eternity.
Journalists typically thrive under it.
Look in a newsroom. That will kill you in the Internet industry. A strong preference for monopoly-market conditions. The Internet is extremely competitive, and that competition often comes from non-news industry companies who have an entirely different business model. A tendency, especially following the contraction of the industry in the 1980s, to view employees as a commodity.