I feel like I’ve seen other articles recently about how newspapers are finally picking up on online trends. This one from the Economist — More Media, Less News — is a good one. It summarizes some of the latest trends, and offers some rays of hope for our struggling industry, though not many.

Here’s something I hadn’t heard before:

Gannett, theworld’s biggest newspaper group, is trying to make its journalism morelocal. It has invested in “mojos”—mobile journalists with wirelesslaptops who permanently work out of the office encamped in communityhubs.

One question: what the hell is a “community hub” if it’s not an office? Is it, like, a shack in the woods somewhere? I mean, it’s gotta at least have internet access, right? Am I a “mojo,” since I often work from coffeeshops and libraries and places that have wi-fi access? I prefer the term backpack journalist.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...