Chicago Reader Eileen Brown, innovation director at the suburban Chicago
Daily Herald, told a forum she gets her best ideas --
and some "cockamamie" ones -- from journalists, while she has "to beg and plead the business side" to try new things. During the "Will Newspapers Survive?" discussion, Chicago Sun-Times editorial page editor
Tom McNamee compared the news to popular music: "Even bands like Wilco, nobody's buying the records, they get them free online. So what's going to happen, music is not going to die, people still love music, there will still be bands out there making fantastic music, but they won't make megafortunes."
