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This is also a great platform to get some good speakers and industry people to jaw with. It could be paywalls, micropayments, new technologies; whatever takes your fancy.

So these are early stages but I’m going to keep asking- who and what would you like to see at a conference on journalism and its future in the NW?

For a man who carries two mobile phones, a laptop, a handheld HD video camera, an audio recorder and a digital SLR camera with him, one of the most important tools for his career has been his avatar.

Cue those WAN statistics one more time and find that 81% of American online users also say they read a printed paper at least once a week. In sum, for the moment, it’s not one or the other: it’s both. And transition from one to the other, where it’s happening, comes unpredictably and patchily from city to city and country to country.