Out with the old in with the new

Quality journalism is in real trouble.  No matter what is going to happen to journalism I do not think it is ever become the profitable industry it once was.  That being said we are going to have a lot of "part-time" journalists that are not going to be able to put 100% into all of their pieces.  We are going to have an overload of stories that are all half done. We are going to have a lot of quantity and no quality.  I think for a lot of people it will just become a hobby rather than their passion and career.  Journalism can be sustained on-line, it is just going to have to take some restrictions and brainstorming.  An idea to help journalism survive online would be to have your newspaper read like a normal newspaper to a certain extent.  What if we could make it so you had your major headlines(to grab the reader's attention) and then a one liner to go with it(to draw them in further) and in order to get the full story you pay like fifty cents.  fifty cents is like nothing these days, but if everyone pays fifty cents it would be like the toll-roads, change adds up quick!! Who knows if my idea would work, probably not, but we should keep an open mind to all solutions. As for the commentators ideas, what is going to make Journalism survive is going to have to be a combination of all proposed solutions.  We should converge all solutions into one.  Local blog networks are going to have to get the story rolling, then take donators that will support your story to help you get started on digging deeper into the story, then when or if you need more funding for your story look for grants and funding from other foundations to help give you your extra shove.  If journalism is resolved this way, the "important" matters to the public will become priority and we can still have quality journalism because those journalists that provide the story will be receiving the funding they need.  This will also help weed out the amateur journalists who aren't putting all they've got into their stories.  I do not think just one predicted solution is going to save journalism, it is going to take a lot more than that. Whatever the solution really is going to be we need to figure it out fast before we lose all quality journalism and the important stories fall through the cracks.