One of the "mainstream media" people I've met who really gets the new frontier of media is Lex Alexander a reporter for the Greensboro News & Record. Actually he's now an ex-reporter for the News & Record because yesterday he wrote a farewell post on the paper's health blog:
I'm
taking a company buyout and leaving the News & Record and Landmark
Communications, and today was my last day of work. I do not know
whether anyone will succeed me. In the meantime, if you need to inquire
about a health/medical story or pass on some information, please
contact City Editor Teresa Prout at 336.373.7082 or
teresa.prout@news-record.com. If you have a health item for our
calendar, please contact Carl Wilson at 336.373.7145 or
carl.wilson@news-record.com
Thanks to all who have read and commented here or who have talked to
me for stories. Engaging with readers and sources has been the best
part of this job. My best wishes to you all.
Times truly are tough for newspapers and I think this is going to be a bad loss for the N&R. I've had the chance to speak with Lex a few times and I think he understands as well as anyone what developments like the evolution of blogs and other forms of "conversation media" mean for the news industry. He's a big part of why the News & Record's web presence, as imperfect as it is, is still superior to other newspapers of similar size in this region.
Hopefully Lex is moving on to great things.
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This one really hurts. I’ve always been fond of Lex. In a perfect world, a local online news site would have started up and cherry picked brilliant talent like his before they got away.
This says much about the lack of local online leadership.
Agree 100%.
Thanks for the kind words, Jon. I have nothing lined up yet and have been battling bronchitis since the middle of last week, but I hope to find something soon. Thanks for all your support.