• San Jose Mercury News, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:27 PM

The print model for newspapers is definitely broken, says John Paton, CEO of Digital First, which runs several newspaper publishers (though with a corporate name like that, what else would he say?) Paton is quoted in a roundup of reports on what various newspapers are doing to survive, made during  BIA Kelsey's Interactive Local Media West.

Among the most interesting: "The Journal Register's (Torrington[,Conn.]) Register Citizen has opened its newsroom to residents, creating blogging stations for the community and streaming its news planning meetings online," writes Mike Swift. Other California newspapers -- including the San Jose Mercury News, where this article is from -- will be testing this citizen journalism model as well.

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