Instead, this report ends up being about how our newspaper industry and the editors who help run it, don t walk as well as they talk. I heard the voice again in San Francisco. Outside, in the sunlit and surreal world of San Francisco s streets, were people of all ages and from every continent. Whether the city is a melting pot or a salad bowl or some of both is up for discussion. The weather was spectacular, the setting wonderful.
Life is a challenge.
If you searched for demographic reflections of America at the editors gathering, the best place to look was at staff of the convention newspaper bright, young and diverse or the board of directors getting younger, probably brighter, and certainly more diverse than ever before. At the hotel meeting room used by the staff of The ASNE Reporter, the young reporters, photographers and editors reflected the face of America in the coming millennium. The mostly-smiling and earnest young faces came from all over the place, and clearly are heading somewhere important. The news from and about the interns was good. And the editors handed them business cards.