I didn’t resign to send a message. I resigned because it was the right time given the volatility of the industry and of the cuts in this newsroom. It’s a devastating cut and I didn’t feel like I had as much heart as I used to to keep going. Let me also say that I absolutely respect the right of our publisher [W. Stacey Cowles] to make the business decisions he has to make for the betterment of this paper. We journalists don’t want to think about the business while we’re in the newsroom, and, there was a time when we didn’t have to. Now we do and that’s just the reality/ex-SR senior editor Carla Savalli, Columbia Journalism Review. More here.

Question: Carla goes on to say that there's a tension in today's newsrooms between print and online technology. The SR is a pioneer in online newspapering. Has it helped or hurt the SR?

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