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New Orleans: Can you hear me now?

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New Orleans: Can you hear me now?

POSTED: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 5:05 PM

Hey, remember the piece I wrote for Poynter about the awful situation at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, where some great journalists are losing their jobs in service of a plan to drastically reduce print availability of the newspaper -- in a city where an estimated 36 percent of residentsdon't have Internet access. I said that since the Newhouse family owners seem hellbent on pursuing this unfortunate plan, Plan B must involve figuring out how to get more of the poverty-plagued city's residents on the Web, which would be a positive takeaway.

Hard to believe, but was somebody listening?

Mathews also addressed the issue of broadband access, which is not as widespread in New Orleans as other cities and has raised concerns over who will be able to get the new digitally focused paper. “New Orleans is quite a wired community, but there are certain parts of the community that are not wired,” he said. “So we’re going to invest money working with the Knight Foundation to begin to make a dent in it.”

Let's keep an eye on this. New Orleans could end up a journalistic disaster -- or a road map to the future. Let's hope it's the latter.

Will Bunch @ 5:05 PM Permalink | 1 comment

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:06 PM, 06/24/2012

New Orleans should be given back to the river.

— Mr. Smith

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