James Wright on the Evolving Newsroom

In this segment, Will Potter interviews James Wright, a former Knight-Wallace fellow at the University of Michigan, on the evolution of the newsroom.

James G. Wright is deputy editor for metropolitan and business news for the The Las Vegas Review-Journal. Before joining that publication in 2010, he held editor positions with the Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho), the Times Union (Albany, New York), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, and the San Diego Tribune. Throughout his career, Wright has specialized in watchdog journalism and special projects. In 2011, he directed the Review-Journal's national award-winning investigation of police shootings, "Deadly Force: When Las Vegas Police Shoot, and Kill." In 1985, his efforts to protect a confidential source lead to an Idaho Supreme Court decision establishing qualified privilege for journalists in that state.