Journalists, meet your new overlords: when nerds run the show

Print is dying, and we all know digital is our future. Yet, year after year, at newspaper after newspaper, we keep putting print people in charge. We see the same phenomenon in broadcast as well. Yes, you have fancy prizes and decades of experience managing a legacy platform. But is that what we need right now? Will it be in five years? In short, when do the nerds take over? Consider this panel (of nerds, of course) an alternate universe where the nerds are sitting in the glass office. How will things be different? What changes do we need to make, and what aspects of our legacy do we need to preserve at all costs?