"We believe – no, we know – that the rapid dismantling of local newsrooms and journalism at scale in this country is inevitable if this merger does not proceed.
At the other end of the scale, journalism, crafts, and dance projects still aren't your ticket to the big bucks, even through crowdfunding.
In a statement, Carl Bernstein, Woodward's former partner, described Bezos as "exactly the kind of inventive and innovative choice needed to bring about a recommitment to great journalism on the scale many of us have been hoping for".
"Jeff Bezos seems to me exactly the kind of inventive and innovative choice needed to bring about a recommitment to great journalism on the scale many of us have been hoping for, while employing all the applicable tools and best sensibilities of a new era and the old," he said.
In journalism, "the Internet rewards scale," Ken Doctor, a media analyst and the author of the "Newsonomics" column for the Nieman Journalism Lab, told me.
Most indications so far (e.g. the Heritage minister's Twitter account; this policy paper from Creative Canada) suggest the federal government will be looking to tweak the Canada Periodical Fund in a way that would free up money for small-scale community journalism to go digital.
Like Jeff Jarvis (but on a smaller scale), I teach journalism.
A flickering but frequent presence in Mailer's writing, DH Lawrence operated along similar lines in his non-fiction and journalism, albeit on a smaller scale.
On Wednesday, Mr. Hyatt praised Al Jazeera for "bringing large-scale resources to journalism — something which we have not been able to do".
The recent decision of Russia's Higher Arbitration Court to dissolve TV-6, a national television network, has been described as marking the end of large-scale independent broadcast journalism in Russia.
