Annual interview with Rick Floyd on future of news

Once a year, my friend Rick Floyd interviews by email me for his blog "When I Survey" (formerly "Retired Pastor Ruminates").

He has posted this year's installment. He calls it "The future of newspapers", but it's really about the future of news. Enjoy!

Ruminating with Rick: the second annual "Future of Newspapers" interview

My friend Rick Floyd has posted his second annual interview with me about the state of newspaperdom, at his blog Retired Pastor Ruminates. Here's a link to the first one, done in June 2009.

Ruminations on newspapers and communities

My friend Richard Floyd keeps a blog called Retired Pastor Ruminates. He is a fellow member of the Monday Evening Club of Pittsfield, Mass., to which I presented a paper, previously mentioned here, on the future of newspapers.

Floyd has now conducted and posted an e-mail interview following up on the paper, in which he pursues, and I attempt to answer, a line of inquiry relating to the function of newspapers in holding together communities, and whether the decline of newspapers will have an effect on the well-being of communities.