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‘Being small and a family-owned company are attributes that have helped us to become a multimedia news organization.’

Putting the Web first might be ‘the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.’

‘Tomorrow’s potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how.’

‘People can adapt to anything if the order comes from the person who signs the paychecks.’

‘This journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.’

‘Newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.’

As journalists, we think about what the Web means for work we do in reporting and disseminating news and information. Given its transformative capacity, we can regard the Web as…

‘Unencumbered by the need to squeeze words into a finite space, the Internet proved better for me, as the writer, and I'd argue for readers, too, than newsprint.’

Heeding the warning against forcing ‘existing quality standards into new technology,’ a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.

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