It ain't the meat, it's the motion could be new mantra for online news...

First there is the discussion about whether the print or online editor will be in charge of the new "converged" newsroom at the New York Times. Now this move to bring in a veteran television journalist who saw the broadcast area moving toward too much tabloid, and is jumping to interactive. Note the VP and Editor of The Star, Mark Zieman cites "declinining costs of video and audio technology as reasons why newspapers can succeed as multimedia enterprises." Former TV Anchor to Jumpstart Interactive at 'Kansas City Star': "%u201COur customers now have a dazzling array of options for consuming information,"he said, "including blogs, text messaging, pod casts and high-speed Internet over their cell phones. We intend to be the dominant local news provider on each of them -- a truly 'platform-neutral' news-gathering team."