Jimmy McClung is now 67 and left the newspaper business in the 1990s, trading a life under C.K. McClatchy investigating the California mob for a sailboat and the Texas coast. Now McClung is worried about the future of what he calls "project journalism." In a 15-minute discussion taped June 29, 2008 at Williamstown, Mass., with Media Giraffe Project Editor Bill Densmore, McClung talks about why publishers matter. To launch streaming audio, click on the carat on the left of the bar below. OR DOWNLOAD AN MP3 PODCAST.
A video version of this interview is also available.