What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism

Columbia Journalism School | Tow Center for Digital JournalismAcknowledgementsWe owe a great debt to many people who contributed to this report. While wecan’t name them all here, we wish to thank some of those most deeply involved.Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, hatched the ideafor the report and has consistently guided our efforts with wisdom and skill.Jeffrey Frank and Marcia Kramer carefully edited our copy and saved us fromverbosity—or worse. Janice Olson took germs of our ideas and turned them intowonderful graphics. Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism,and Elizabeth Fishman, who oversees communications for the JournalismSchool, provided expert advice throughout.Our families, friends and colleagues tolerated our absences with patience andprovided wonderful insight that helped shape our findings.Most importantly, we would like to thank the dozens of publishers, journalistsand salespeople who opened their doors and books to us and dealt with ourmany questions. For all the difficulties that journalism faces these days, we weredeeply impressed and encouraged by their commitment to this business, and toensuring that citizens will continue to get the information they need to leadtheir lives.143