Editors’ jobs become more important with blogs

Editorsweblog.org reports about a debate during the World Editor’s Forum. According to the article, Dean Wright, Editor-in-Chief and Vice President, MSBNC.com, and Jean-Louis Cebrián, Chief Executive Officer of PRISA Group and EL PAÍS, agreed that the newspaper “editor’s role becomes more important” in a new media environment in which news can be produced and disseminated through online means such as blogs.