The number of journalists on newsroom payrolls is shrinking.  Yet the demand for top-quality news coverage of urban communities may be higher than ever. How should a major metropolitan newspaper choose what to cover and what to abandon? Can it fulfill its community responsibilities as it contends with crushing financial pressures?

Listen to Martin Baron, editor of The Boston Globe, discuss these questions in a talk he gave in April called “The Incredible Shrinking Newsroom:  How can fewer reporters meet increasing demands for coverage?”

Baron began his career at the Miami Herald in 1976 and later moved to the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times before he returned to the Herald as executive editor. In 2001, he moved to Boston to serve as the Globe’s editor.

This spring Baron was the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication’s 2007 Ruhl Lecturer. Established in 1974 in honor of one of Oregon’s respected newspaper journalists Robert W. Ruhl, the Ruhl Symposium brings a distinguished American journalist to the SOJC to deliver a public lecture on an issue of significance for contemporary journalism.

ListenUp is edited by Katie Campbell.