Recession Woke Newspapers to New Reality, Experts Say
Posted: 11/9/2012 | By: James Haggerty | The Scranton Times-Tribune
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist told newspaper executives on
Thursday that the industry's recent turmoil makes it face a new reality.
"The great recession may have saved us from ourselves," Alex Jones told
about 70 people attending the 88th annual convention of the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association at the Hilton Scranton and Conference
Center. "We saw in 2008 that the world had changed."