Could the iPhone rescue journalism?

Here’s a sign of the times delivered at a journalism conference populated largely by MSM folks: advocacy for how mobile tools can be key to driving (online) newspaper readership.

Said Bill Densmore, of the Media Giraffe Project and a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, during a panel on “What We Were and What We Must Become”:

“I just finally broke down and got an iPhone about a week ago, and in that week, I’ve read more news than at any time in the last few years because it’s there when I have a minute and want something to read.