I m trying to get us all on the same page by having a set of goals and dreams for what this newsroom wants to do. What I ve seen thus far is a newsroom and group of editors who are very anxious to make those determinations, put their shoulder to the wheel, and go with it. Sometimes we get so caught up in planning that we fail to appreciate the wonderful task that we have which is to gather news and inform people about what is going on. That is something I enjoy very much, so I m looking forward to getting to that phase. Technology is going to always be an important part of our lives whether we are in the news business or any other business.
Technology drives a lot of our world today, and it always has.
All of us need to be mindful of the technology. But I think one of my jobs is not to get so drawn to the technology that I forget the main thing we are doing, which is to gather the news and tell it accurately and efficiently so people in our area of the world know what is going on primarily in south Mississippi. I m very bullish about newspapers. But I believe something very similar to newspapers today will be part of our lives as far into the future as I can see. In some ways a newspaper is almost more important now that it has ever been.