"Categorizing What Works - So We Can Apply Those Lessons to Future Endeavors," Neiman Reports, Summer 2010
“[The] death of a huge tree is not the death of a forest … The ecosystem will continue and if any gaps exist, people will move in to fill them.”
Eric Newton, who is now vice president for the journalism program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, said these words more than a decade ago when the sale of The San Francisco Examiner foretold its demise. What he said is apt today as we watch tall trees of old growth journalism wither and even die.
As this happens, it is crucial that we mark what is at risk and find ways to support them, such as labor-intensive watchdog journalism and long-form narrative, each of which binds us across differences.
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