Journalism’s Future
Paul Keep, the newly installed editor of The Grand Rapids Press, spoke Wednesday on the future of newspapers, in prepared remarks delivered to the Press Club of Grand Rapids. Keep’s thesis is straightforward: The Internet and the global recession have proved to be a double-whammy, slashing at advertising revenue and forcing newspapers to make sacrifices such as reporter layoffs [...]
Roadmap for Success
I recently had the opportunity to pull together some notes for a casual friend of mine, a college student who is an aspiring musician — one who actually seems to have the talent to pull off a career in music. He has been stressing a bit about how he will pull things together so that [...]