Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard, offers a glimpse of the void we'll inhabit if the task of newspapers withers away.
Having arrived in this country only in 2002 he was not the obvious choice for the top slot of a British institution, but he delegated much of the task of running the newspaper to his deputy, Ben Preston, and other department heads.
Jones affords a glimpse of the void we'll inhabit if the fundamental task of newspapers withers away with the paper they're printed on.
If the task of a well-meaning newspaper (as it's often said) is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, then the mission of Private Eye is broader: to afflict anyone, famous or obscure, who seems to deserve scrutiny, censure or mockery.
Morison demanded that typography be functional: the task of the book and the newspaper designer was to transmit the author's text clearly, and the task of the advertising and display designer was to command attention.
Trinity Mirror's chief executive, Sly Bailey, is the highest new entry, straight in at number 18. Ms Bailey quit IPC at the end of last year to take on the task of turning around the troubled newspaper giant.
Nash, the numbers cruncher extraordinaire, is assigned the task of detecting Soviet encryptions in American newspapers.
When Michigan middle school student Annie Reed was assigned the task of writing an article for her school newspaper, she set an ambitious goal: she wanted to interview Grammy-award winning rapper Eminem.
Basically I was given the task of making sure we knew who was on staff for every newspaper, TV news broadcast, and magazine in the world… or something.
Now the task of turning the company around has fallen to Ashley Highfield, who has no newspaper experience.
