Looks like they’re rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic again.
If I were to write a long post on why this isn’t going to work, it would include these quotes:
“no one’s going to lose their job because of this.”
“We’ve broken into task forces to figure out how to implement this, but some of this stuff, I’ll be honest, gives us great pause” (emphasis added)
“some people expect that whatever’s on our site undergoes the same degree of scrutiny as what appears in the paper”
Remember than Gannett owns part of Topix, which is doing some interesting things with hyperlocal news that are actually working. I’d give Rich Skrenta and the boys the benefit of the doubt for now, assuming that they’re advising on this project.