Kevin: "ProPublica's new open-to-all citizen journalism venture, the ProPublica Reporting Network, launched this week, with an aim to track US government stimulus construction projects. "

Kevin: "The average time spent at newspaper Web sites is still relatively low — an individual spends an average 11 minutes a month at the (US) nation's top 30 newspaper Web sites. In April, only half of the top 30 sites increased the average time spent per person, according to Nielsen Online data. "

Kevin: Steven Johnson and Paul Starr debate the question. Steven Johnson believes that while the newspaper industry will look fundamentally different in 5 to 10 years that the news system that is currently evolving might actually look better than the one that we have now.