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The New York Times on Monday covers the demise of the Cincinnati Post. I was particularly struck by the two paragraphs at the very end of the piece:

Last Thursday, William Mallory Sr., a former state legislator and the father of Cincinnati’s mayor, paid tribute to The Post by passing out free copies on the steps of city hall, where he had sold it as paperboy in the 1940s.

“I remember always seeing the paper’s motto, ‘Give light and the people will find their own way,’” he said. “I wonder who will bring light to cast out the darkness now.”

Well, we will. And by "we," of course, I mean the entity that is known, for lack of a better term, as "the new media." The business model is changing. Readers are changing. Newspapers, little by little, are changing. People will always crave news and information, and there will always be people who live and work to provide that service. But the medium has altered massively. One of the purposes of this site is to serve readers in ways they are not being served now by traditional news outlets. And for those of us who have devoted our lives to "doing" journalism, it is a sobering and scary and exciting and exhilarating thing.