"Tom Rosenstiel" is an author, journalist, press critic and executive director of the American Press Institute. He was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. A journalist for more than 30 years, he worked as a media criticism/media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine and as co-founder and vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Among his books, he is the co-author of the popular The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect. He appears often on radio, television and in print, and has written widely on politics and media. He is the author of The Next Journalism column at Poynter.org.

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Journalists are trying to make the distinction between leaks that are political and leaks that are whistle-blowing.

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Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it.

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[The question is] how many news organizations have the investigative muscle to handle a story this complex, and how many can afford to lose a team for the time it will take to do that, especially in TV, ... I fear the list of news organizations that can do that today is not very long. And sadly, it gets shorter if ad sales go down and other news pushes Katrina off our radar screens.

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At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.

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This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity.

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Had the respect of the hard-boiled editors and investigative reporters, but he managed to thrive and triumph in the more corporate environment of today.

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He made it all work.

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Each one synthesizing and adding to what others are learning. If only one or two news organizations do it, it won't have the same effect.

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