J-prof Philip Meyer, author of the 2004 book The Vanishing Newspaper, offers this prescription for the future newspaper: "A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product."

J-prof Kelly Toughill on why one analyst thinks news media organizations would be better off as privately-held entities.

Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui believes the Canadian news media should come under scrutiny and engage in some self-examination for how it covered the cases of the three Arab-Canadians mentioned in the Iacobucci report on Canada's role in their being tortured abroad, plus Maher Arar.

The Globe and Mail's Colin Freeze has developed a timeline -- The Road to Torture -- on torture and the war on terror in Canada, specifically the cases of Maher Arar, Abdullah Almaki and Ahmad Abou El Maati.

It's an ambitious undertaking, and it shows some of the strengths and weaknesses of online interactives.