Free Press’ Joe Torres and Victor Pickard write that the upheaval in the media industry offers an opportunity to reform the business and pursue policies that will protect journalism and, ultimately, the democratic system that depends on it.

All this adds up to a loss of decades of experience in the Colorado Capitol press corps. It’s not just the lack of warm bodies at the press table. It’s the lack of authority.

Let’s face it, good journalism is expensive, and expensive is not part of the vocabulary in newspaper boardrooms. The Watergate example is just the tip of the iceberg.