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If you're just getting back from a long family vacation or returning to the start of a new academic year, then you've got plenty of reading to catch up on. This summer, there were several interesting reports from various corners about the state of news and the future of journalism. These are each well worth digging into if you're interested in taking a hard look at where we need to go next.

• The most recent of these was posted by Vin Crosbie, a new media consultant and critic, at his
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With the new academic year under way, Jeff Jarvis shares his PowerPoint presentation from the opening lecture of his interactive journalism class. Jarvis blogs at BuzzMachine and is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York's new Graduate School of Journalism. Continue

For those who haven't seen this yet, the Daily Californian, the student-owned, independent newspaper at University of California at Berkeley has decided to stop publishing on Wednesdays due to a drop in advertising revenue. Editor-in-Chief Bryan Thomas told a local Bay Area newspaper:

"We're making cuts now, it's a one-year fix to get us through the next year. We're focused on the long-term…

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Over the Idea Lab blog, Christopher Csikszentmihályi of MIT's Center for the Future of Civic Media submitted a posted earlier this month called "None of Your Business Model." He wondered if rather than focusing on new business models, whether journalism should look to the free software and open source movements for ways to sustain reporting in the future:

"Whatever t…

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Earlier this summer, I had a brief Twitter exchange with Publish 2.0 Founder Scott Karp about the Beatles and innovation. He tweeted something that caught my eye: I'm a big Beatles fan. But the mysterious nature of how innovation happens i… Continue