John Stackhouse, the new editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail, appears in a 52-second video on the newspaper's website.

Here's a partial transcript of his remarks:

The Globe and Mail is one of the world's premier newspapers. One of our challenges going forward is to become one of the world's great news organizations. We have many of the world's best journalists working here. We have to ensure they are focused on the most important issues and events to our readers.

In some ways, what we do hasn't changed. People want to find out what's going on, and they want to understand it. That's the basics of journalism.

But our readers also want to be part of the process. They want to share their ideas and they want to share their information with us.

We need to be much more open and find new ways of accessing those readers in the years ahead.

What The Globe and Mail stands for hasn't changed, and won't change -- honest, credible, authoritative journalism. But how we get that to you is a fast-evolving story.

Here is what Stackhouse told The Canadian Press (story posted at CBC.ca):

Stackhouse said he and Greenspon have similar visions of what quality journalism is but he hopes to build more partnerships with others as he takes over the paper.

"The ways news organizations are changing requires a different kind of leadership," he said.

"I think I work fairly well with diverse groups of people beyond the editorial department - that is other parts of the organization as well as outside partners."

Stackhouse said he's working toward a redesign of the print edition in the next year and wants the paper's website to be constantly evolving and keeping pace with changes in technology and online trends.

He also suggested the days of free content online may be nearing an end.

"We think our journalism has a strong value for our users and we think that audience wants to pay for it directly or indirectly and they understand the value of it, so we just need to continue to find ways to make that transaction work," he said.

"There's going to be all types of innovations in the years ahead - whether it's pay-per-use, or pay-per-view or click models - that I think we'd be eager to try out."

Addendum

Some reaction from a Toronto Star article:

Paul Knox, chair of the School of Journalism at Ryerson University, described Stackhouse as "very driven," adding his appointment signals the newspaper's desire to "push forward" and tackle the incredible challenges rocking the industry.

"I think that he will apply a tremendous amount of energy to this enterprise," he said.*

* I think the article may have been remiss in not pointing out that Knox is an ex-Globe-ian who would have worked with both Greenspon and Stackhouse.

Stackhouse's promotion comes during an extremely turbulent time for newspapers. The Globe, like all newspapers, is vulnerable to an advertising decline because of the recession. Moreover, traditional dailies are grappling with shifting consumer preferences as readers increasingly migrate to the Internet and other new media platforms.