Newspaper Execs Launch Group to 'Fight Back'

Against a perceived increasing irrelevance.

Link to January 31 Editor & Publisher post.

Excerpt: Newspapers and their online offspring combined are more popular than ever imagined and yet media reports nearly always paint a portrait of an industry gasping for air in the digital age.

This wrongheaded perception stems from the economic recession that’s affected all advertising-based businesses, and from the myth that newspapers no longer attract the public support they once enjoyed.

But the biggest contributing factor to the distorted picture of the industry’s condition just might be us, to paraphrase Pogo, the comic strip character.

Link to the Newspaper Project.