• L.A. Times, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:04 PM

When does "Stop the Presses!" mean digital before print? At the 880 print and digital outlets around the U.S.  controlled by John Paton, employees do "tweeting, Facebooking, blogging and video-posting news before contributing a single keystroke toward the next day's paper."

Paton is profiled here as "the onetime copy boy [who] has advanced to become one of the most powerful figures in the transformation of journalism from its print and analog past to a digital future.... Everyone in the news business talks about expanding their footprint online, but Paton has pushed more aggressively in that direction and on a bigger scale than any other major executive."

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