NPR has an audio report on the debate about whether the Columbia Missourian, the professional newspaper produced by the world's oldest journalism school, should go online-only, partner with the Columbia Tribune, or just buck up and continue to lose a million dollars a year to sustain the "Missouri Method" of print journalism training. I blogged about this issue two months ago, when I called J-school founder Walter Williams a "change agent" and said:

Bloomberg's accidental premature publication of Steve Jobs' obituary makes me wonder: Are obituaries obsolete? Journalistic writing is basically episodic.

I wrote to someone just the other day that "I have a problem with the term 'multimedia.'" Just as I have a problem with "citizen journalism." Now I see that the Press Gazette reports that the Press Association (UK) is phasing out "multimedia:"

For the last couple of weeks I've been too busy to blog much. We're working to build the next-generation newspaper website management system. We have an October deadline, which seems a long way off, but it's not. There's a lot of work to do, including complete site redesigns. We're doing this simultaneously for two newspapers that are 1,200 miles apart, and the closest is almost five hours away from our office. And I'm going to India for two weeks in September. I want to see it largely completed before I drop off the grid.I've been through many content management system implementations.