Neil Budde, DAILYME.com news website co-founder: Mr. Media Radio Interview

I’m not one of those crybabies who thinks newspapers are dying.

I do, however, think that the news itself is migrating to new distribution systems and that, in the future, the word “paper” will be less and less connecting with the word “news.”

Okay, maybe I do think newspapers are dying. But I believe well-managed, thoughtful and provocative news organizations will always thrive in the new media order.

The Huffington Post recently announced a million-dollar commitment to investigative journalism. TrueSlant.com, a news startup, has become a home to experienced journalists—including Mr. Media—who are pursuing their beats in new ways by blogging as often as they have something fresh to say on a subject.

The latest entrant to the news-for-all is DailyMe.com, a start-up news gathering operation that boasts of adding 5,000 new stories daily from the most reputable of sources, including the Associated Press, Reuters, the Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Newsday.

It’s also licensing and repackaging news product for third parties.

DailyMe.com comes to us from the minds of Eduardo Hauser and Neil Budde, who will join us in a moment.

Hauser has 18 years of online and offline media experience at AOL Latin America, Venevision and the Cisneros Group of Companies. He is also a member of the board of directors of NPR (National Public Radio).

As for my guest today, Neil Budde was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online, having formulated the original idea for the site and developed it into one of the most successful subscription news sites around. He later built Yahoo! News.

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Here's What You're Missing

Pop culture reporters do the heavy lifting so you won't have to. The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schechner, for example, felt compelled to sit through the first episode of HBO's "The Sopranos" so he could tell readers what they'll likely miss when an edited version of the show begins airing on the A&E cable network on Wednesday, January 10:

• 1 nude, dancing woman

• 2 topless women in a strip club

• 5 profane terms

• 7 scatalogical references

• 33 carnal expletives

The violence remains in tact, by the way.

Mr. Media predicts basic frickin' cable viewers will never notice the frickin' difference, although the show will be somewhat frickin' shorter than HBO frickin' fans will remember; about 17 frickin' minutes, plus mutha-frickin' commercials.

The Wall Street Junior

Oh. Did I just say that out loud? On the Internet? For all too see?

It's just that when I opened the newly resized Wall Street Journal today, it barely looked and no longer felt like the newspaper it was on Saturday. Don't get me wrong - it looks great, is easy to read and is easy to handle. But the Journal holds a unique position in American journalism. Its content is outstanding and matched by few. Its editorial page is so far right as to negate the need for the comics page most newspapers offer. And it always felt special because of its size and utterly grey demeanor.

Mr. Media adjusted well when his local paper, the St. Petersburg Times, shrank recently. But that was a lot easier. This time, Mr. Media feels like he lost a close friend.

Or maybe that's just the endless series of funerals on TV this long holiday weekend. At least Francisco Franco is still dead.