News(paper) in the cloud

I think it's possible today to run a news organization — up to the point of publishing — from the cloud, changing not only the production process of news but also its culture. John Paton, CEO of Journal Register, is about to prove it with his Ben Franklin Project.

John and I were sitting in my CUNY office as he told me about the technology he's saddled with at this orphaned newspaper company where he just took the helm. He used a term I swear I hadn't heard in well more than a decade: "VDT." T...