Comments on: Optimism? Sometimes not so much http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/06/optimism-sometimes-not-so-much/ a group discussion about the future of student media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Robinson http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/06/optimism-sometimes-not-so-much/comment-page-1/#comment-30743 John Robinson Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:15 +0000 http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2007/06/11/optimism-sometimes-not-so-much/#comment-30743 Bryan, most of what's been written is wildly off the mark or just plain wrong. There is still plenty of hope and plenty of opportunity. We still have 100 people in news for a 90,000 circ. paper, which isn't terrible. Yes, I'd like to have more, and absolutely, I wish I'd never had to go through last week. But we can still produce excellent journalism and we will. You know how rapidly the world is changing. Business models are shifting. Readers are becoming audiences. Sometimes, evolution isn't painless. That's what we faced. But we'll be OK, and our audience AND our journalism will, too. Bryan, most of what's been written is wildly off the mark or just plain wrong. There is still plenty of hope and plenty of opportunity. We still have 100 people in news for a 90,000 circ. paper, which isn't terrible. Yes, I'd like to have more, and absolutely, I wish I'd never had to go through last week. But we can still produce excellent journalism and we will.

You know how rapidly the world is changing. Business models are shifting. Readers are becoming audiences. Sometimes, evolution isn't painless. That's what we faced. But we'll be OK, and our audience AND our journalism will, too.

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