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== Key readings for Journalism That Matter: The Memphis Sessions==
1. Geneva Overholser: "A Manifesto for Change" 
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Overholser-manifesto

2. Chris Peck et al.: "The Next Newsroom" 
http://www.mediagiraffe.org/jtm/jtm-white-paper.pdf

3. Len Witt: "Constructing an open-source framework for reinventing journalism"
*[http://reinventing.collegemedia.org/index.php?id=260 BLOG INTERVIEW]
*[http://newshare.typepad.com/mediagiraffe/2006/06/reinventing_jou.html AUDIO INTERVIEW]
*[http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_6/witt/index.html Full article on FirstMonday]

==Optional readings for the Memphis Journalism that Matters sessions==

*Cole Campbell on sustaining inquiry which leads to action -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/jtm/cole-campbell-kettering.pdf PDF DOWNLOAD]
*Richard Harwood [http://www.theharwoodinstitute.org/rcharwood/weblog/archives/000158.html remembers Cole Campbell]
* [http://www.chapelhillnews.com/106/story/4714.html Memorial Saturday, 1 p.m., UNC]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/business/media/08campbell.html New York Times obit:] "One of the first editors to embrace the idea that journalism should help readers to be engaged citizens."

*Tom Stites [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis-tom-stites (BIO)] -- two essays: 
-- [http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/12/30/guest-posting-who-needs-excellence-in-journalism On who will step forward to support journalism essential to democracy] 
-- [http://newshare.typepad.com/mgp2006/2006/07/how_americas_ne.html On how America's newspapers have lost touch with mainstream readers] 

*Bill Siemering [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Memphis-bill-siemering Radio journalism in developing countries: the connection to JTM]

*Tom Mohr on what newspapers must do to survive (from Editor & Publisher)
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/newspapers-tom-mohr-cronkite-asu.html 
COMMENTS: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2006/09/ethan_kaplan_on.html

*David Zeeck at Poynter's "Future of Newspapers" seminar in May 2006
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=102188
(links at bottom lead to other thoughtful pieces)

* Mark Glaser: Traditional newsrooms still need to walk the talk
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/12/your_take_rounduptraditional_n.html

== About the changing focus of print vs. web ==

*David Hiller: LA Times must break it on the web; analyze in print
http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2007/01/lat.php

*Rex Smith of Albany Times-Union in effect agrees with Hiller
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=551172

*LA Times' Tim Rutten reviews the "new" Wall Street Journal
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-rutten6jan06,1,6619340.column

== Also recently noted ==

Malcolm Gladwell on his blog (reprinting from The New Yorker) on 
why newspapers should be pushing not abandoning investigative journalism
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2007/01/enron_and_newsp.html 
'' "We are dismantling the institution of newspaper journalism precisely at the moment when it seems to be of greatest social value." ''
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070108fa_fact

*Barry Parr on newspapers focusing on non-breaking news as a strategy
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/archives/2007/01/a_winning_web_n.html

*[http://www.gillin.com/pdg_bio.htm Paul Gillin]: The death of America's metro newspapers and birth of thousands of news-shares?
http://netb2b.com/article.cms?articleId=30158

*Newspaper editors/publishers don't know what to expect (World Editors' Forum) 
http://www.editorsweblog.org/print_newspapers/2006/12/newspaper_executives_cant_predict_future.php

*Is Gannett's focus on over-45 for print at odds with Newspaper Next advice?
http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/2006/12/gannett_to_focu.html

*Doug McGill's "Syllabus for journalism as a healing art"
http://www.mcgillreport.org/healingart.htm

* Jeff vonKaenel on why he thinks users will pay for news on the web
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/future-of-newspapers-will-people-be.html

* Is Gannett in Indianapolis proposing newsroom employees do "advertorial" work?
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12129 and
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12128

* Paperless newspapers: The Telegraph PM edition and Illiad links
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/links-newspapers-for-web-only-telegram.html

* Roger Plothow: Smaller, family, 'red state' papers are doing just fine -- why?
http://mediagiraffe.blogspot.com/2006/12/idaho-publisher-finds-smaller-papers.html

* Do newspapers need to become "information valets"?
http://future-of-journalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/web-seen-as-gradually-killing-bundled.html 
http://newshare.typepad.com/newshare/future_of_newspapers/index.html

* Columnist at environmental site "Grist" on abandoning print
(he's willing to pay for online news)
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12/22/8952/6389

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