Today’s thought: Are the right leaders in place?

Posted on February 18, 2008 by pat

Can people who were in this industry before the advent of the Web be the ones to usher in the change that newspapers so desperately need?

Aren’t those the kind of people who still think the old ways of doing things can still work? That all we need to do is buckle down a little?

Do newspapers need leaders at the top who come from a different background? Do newspapers need leaders who aren’t tethered to the past or the old ways of doing things?

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  • Wendy

    As a former member of the Dead Tree Society turned Webhead about four years ago, I say “yes” to most of the questions you raised above. Most of the folks on our website have print backgrounds, primarily because of the lack of younger multimedia-trained folks like yourself.

    It’s all about embracing the Web, and that shouldn’t matter what your background is. I’ve done that, and many of my colleagues have, for a variety of reasons, professional viability being only one of them. As I tell resistant print types and those new to online journalism, “If I can do it, you can do it . . . ”

    But you have to WANT to do it.

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