Leonard Downie Jr. is vice president at large and former executive editor of The Washington Post. He is the author, along with Michael Schudson, of "The Reconstruction of American Journalism." The following are notes from his remarks delivered at the Federal Trade Commission’s “News Media Workshop” held on December 1 and 2, 2009:

The Columbia University Journalism School Report: The Reconstruction of American Journalism details the transformational moment in American journalism, in which era of domination of newspaper and television news is rapidly giving way to a new era of journalism in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed.