Welcome to the four new Interns. You are the next-generation of reporters and journalists. Old guys like me have a lifetime of reading the regular newspaper (=in printed format and delivered each morning to my driveway at my home in Fair Oaks). But (like it or not) we are entering into the Brave New World of e-journalism and news reporting. Some of it is troubling (=how will journalists earn a decent income?), and some of it is splendid (= accurate reporting on local news). We older-type readers of printed newspapers are somewhat confounded as we presciently look forward. We solicit the views of the new Journalism Interns about which fork in the road ahead would be optimum. What is our best strategy? How can older readers assist the next generation of new Journalists (in their 20s)? Remember, we traditional readers do not have the advantage in taking an MA degree in journalism at UC Davis or SacState. So we lack the insights from your professors of Journalism. Maybe the interns can serve as a bridge to convey information from the journalism professors to traditional readers of print newspapers. Maybe we traditional readers need a 2009-edition of "Cliff's Notes" in modern e-journalism..... a brief 40-page pamphlet that we could read..... that informs us which way the wind is blowing.....in the realm of News Journalism.

Thanks to David Watts Barton for this insightful article regarding out-sourcing of the Sacramento Bee internal staff in accounting and finance. Bee readers like myself tend to focus on the journalism aspects of what we read, and we have very little insight or understanding of the internal workings of the The Bee. Gary Pruitt and Cheryl Dell do not keep us informed about internal operations; and we are the paying subscribers ($200 per year) of the print-version of The Sacramento Bee.