More than a week later, three News Foo themes continue to resonate with me: the future of long-form journalism, the challenge of delivering context online, and the need to rebuild trust. I take a look each theme in the sections that follow.

In that spirit, “saving newspapers” is confusing means with ends. Our problem isn’t saving newspapers. It’s protecting the social mission that journalists have taken on, and saving (or creating) jobs for the people, including journalists, who work in newspaper companies. The papers, as they exist now, are a distraction!