Swim with dolphins
By William M. Hartnett on Feb 22, 2007 in newspapers
>What would you do if you ran The (Cincinnati) Post and had a year to live? (CityBeat)
(Via Romenesko)
Obviously, upon learning that you have but a year to live, you should immediately quit your job running The Cincinnati Post and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. You should then sail around the world, but only after reading this incredibly specific book. A better plan, seeing as how only your paper is dying, not you, would be to stop doing every single thing for which the only justification anyone can think of is simply, “Because that’s what we’ve always done.” Then again, every newspaper needs to do that. Howard Owens has more specific thoughts on turning the death watch into a bold experiment, which is not to say that Post staffers, or all of us, for that matter, would not find our souls embiggened by, say, walking from Land’s End to John o’ Groats.
