"Author's Note
Introduction: Will Newspaper Journalism Survive?
Part One: Morning
1: Why This Matters
Newspapers and Coat Hangers
Journalism and Democracy: Fully Interdependent
How a Democracy Decides
Journalism's Role in Public Judgment
Opposites Attract
Concerns and Conceits
But How to Define Quality?
Effect on Public Life
2: The Heritages
The Ridder Path
The Intersection
The Knight Path
Lee Hills and the Supremacy of the Newsroom
Losing an Heir
3: Building Toward Merger
Rebuilding a Newspaper
Practicing Journalists
Turning Points
Finding Alvah Chapman
Dependence and Independence
The Deal Is Done
4: Wichita: A Marriage Made In…?
""Scorched Earth"" Policy
A Ride Around Town
A Modest Start and a Modest Goal
No Place at the Table
Another One?
Good Journalism with Good Journalists
A Coda
Part Two: Midday
5: Introducing Change
From ""Separation of Power"" to the ""Publisher System""
6: External Change: Boomers, Wall Street, and Technology
Change One: Boomers or Bust
Change Two: The Wall Street Syndrome
Cyclical, Top to Bottom
On Deaf Ears
Change Three: Technology
The Internet
Market Fragmentation
7: Internal Change: Creeping Corporatism and Catastrophe
Change Four: Leave Autonomy Alone
Creeping Corporatism
A Matter of Tone
One Size Fits All
Change Five: You Get What You Pay For, Maybe
The Publishers' Revolt
The Erosion of Newspaper Quality and MBOs
Change Six: People and Purpose
8: Change Seven: Breaching the Wall
Why a Wall?
Cracks and Gaps
Auto-mania
Where's My Bazooka?
A Coda
9: Change Eight: Lie, Cheat, Steal
Post-Watergate Syndrome
Lie
Cheat
Steal
… And Trust
""Who Do I See About…?
Tips for Coping
Part Three: Evening
1: Doing the Journalism
Batten: Exemplar of Great Journalism
Three Mile Island
PTL
Kentucky Basketball
Hurricane Andrew
Margins of Excellence
""An Incredible and Spectacular Honor""
A Coda
11: Saying Good-bye
A Philadelphia Story
A Columbia Story
A Miami Story
A San Jose Story
12: Wichita … Saying Good-bye
Public Journalism
From Collegiality to Confrontation
""No Matter What It Takes""
We Didn't Mean That!
13: What Now?
Migrating Faster
Going Private
Corporate Reform
Talk Differently to the Street
How Big Is Big Enough?
Nonprofit Alternatives
The Final Coda
Notes
Index
About the Author"
DAVIS “BUZZ” MERRITT (Wichita, KS) spent more than four decades with Knight Newspapers and Knight Ridder publishers.
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