A seminar on the death of newspapers

Well, not quite. It's a collection of links from Jay Rosen on the future of news. I find it interesting, if depressing, that his conclusions are similar to what I wrote a little over a week ago:

I don't know what will replace the newspaper journalism we have relied on. It's a terrible loss for the public when people who bought the public service dream lose their jobs providing that service, and realizing that dream. I do not look forward to explaining to my students the contractions in the job market and why they're likely to continue for the near term. It feels grim to have to say: "There is no business model in news right now. We're between systems."

I honestly don't know what's next. But I'm a professor of it. So I'm supposed to know where journalism is headed. Instead of that, I have this: my flying seminar from the last month of trying to figure it out. You're supposed to take the course and feel caught up. I've given you a lot of looks at it because the only solution I have to offer is pluralism itself: many funders, many paths, many players, and many news systems with different ideas about how to practice journalism for public good (and how to pay for it, along with who participates) alive at once.

And, as Chris Mooney points out, there's a lot of pain involved.