I hope you have a great Christmas and enjoy the holiday weeks ahead. It’s a great time to look back on memorable events of the past year and look forward to opportunities in 2009.
For me, 2008 will be remembered as the year I turned the page and set out on my own, leaving my job at a newspaper. Professional highlights include speaking in Denmark, Portugal, San Diego and Washington, D.C. (among others) and meeting great people at every stop.
It’s the people I met that gives me great hope for the potential of online journalism (I’m looking at you!). I’ve said for a long time that this industry upheaval is about people, not technology. And we’re fortunate to have a network of smart, driven colleagues working hard to solve this problem of finding a sustainable model for news and information that leverages the technology and connects markets, information and communities to one another.
It’s safe to say that network is larger today than it was a year ago. And just wait ’til you see how large it is a year from now.
Merry Christmas.
Mark Briggs 
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