When Your House Is Burning Down, You

To Live Exuberantly, We Must Be Prepared To Illuminate The Dark Spots In Ourselves.

Moving Forward, Investigative Journalists Need To Train Themselves To Be Media Amphibians - Just As Comfortable With The Classic Verities Of Great Journalism As They Are With Video, Twitter, Facebook, And, Most Importantly, Citizen Journalism.

The Key Question Facing Those Of Us Working In The Media (old And New) Is Whether We Embrace And Adapt To The Radical Changes Brought About By The Internet Or Pretend That We Can Somehow Hop Into A Journalistic Way Back Machine And Return To A Past That No Longer Exists And Can't Be Resurrected. There Is No Question That, As The Industry Moves Forward And We Figure Out The New Rules Of The Road, There Will Be - And Needs To Be - A Great Deal Of Experimentation With New Revenue Models.

We Have Created A Democracy That Links Us All, And With It Come Not Only Opportunities But Obligations. There Are No Gates Or Walls High Enough. There Are No Bank Accounts Large Enough To Buy You And Your Family And Your Friends Protection From The Fear And Hunger Of Those Left Behind Or To Isolate You From The Consequences Of Growing Social Inequities. We Are All In This Boat Together. And The Fact That There Isn't A Hole At Your End Of The Boat Doesn't Mean You Are Safe.

Why Do We Spend So Much Of Our Limited Time On This Earth Focusing On All The Things That Our Eulogies Will Never Cover?