Top Editors Discuss Newspapers' Future, and Web, at Columbia Panel - David Hirschman, Editor and Publisher 

How can newspapers survive (and thrive) in the 21st Century? That was the $64,000 question at a panel at the Columbia University School of Journalism Wednesday night as some of the top names in journalism talked about different ways that newspapers can evolve to remain both relevant and economically viable in the Internet age. On the decidedly optimistic side was American Prospect founding co-editor Robert Kuttner, who wrote "The Race," the cover story for the most recent issue of the Columbia Journalism Review in which he declared that newspapers' future as print-digital hybrids could be bright -- but that papers needed to start pushing hard to the Web to make sure they don't get left behind.

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