Endowments would transform newspapers into unshakable fixtures of American life, with greater stability and enhanced independence that would allow them to serve the public good more effectively.
A bearded man with a round, friendly face, Mr. Paton does not froth at the mouth or flail his arms when he talks about transforming newspapers, but he is absolutely convinced that if newspapers are to survive, they will all but have to set themselves on fire, eventually forsaking print and becoming digital news operations.
Hunt wrote enthusiastically about the bid, saying Murdoch wanted to combine Sky television with the Sun and the Times to create a company reaching "from paper to web to TV to iPhone to iPad" and would revolutionise the media in the same way that James's father Rupert transformed newspapers by crushing the print unions at Wapping.
"We have to transform the newspaper," he told editors, circling the word "modernize" in his notes.
It's also, though, an implicit reminder of the challenge Abramson faces as she seeks to transform her newspaper.
He came to New York in the mid-1890s ageage 31 to take on Joseph Pulitzer and transform the newspaper world.
Beginning in the 1950s, Charles Schulz helped transform the newspaper comic strip, introducing adult feelings like anxiety, depression and disillusionment — many of which, Michaelis shows in this engaging biography, came from Schulz himself.
Mr. Moroney played a major role in the 1970s in transforming the newspaper from a privately held business to part of a publicly held media corporation.
Taking over in 1963, Mr. Sulzberger, known as Punch, transformed the newspaper, guiding it through pressing financial troubles, making it national in scope and recasting it with new sections and a new design.
[C5.] New Landscape for Bay Area Papers With approval to complete its deals to buy The San Francisco Chronicle and sell The San Francisco Examiner, the Hearst Corporation did both within 26 hours, transforming the newspaper landscape in the Bay Area.
