By Stephanie Mancuso
Penn State assistant football coach Jay Paterno spoke at the conference today and gave journalists a pep talk on how to use change to revive the newspaper industry. It was pleasantly suprising that Paterno said steps that have helped him on the football field with the Nittany Lions can be applied in the newsroom.
Paterno explained that he is an avid newspaper reader, going as far as calling himself the industry's "biggest supporter." Paterno is extremely adamant about the idea that success requires change.
Paterno's comparison of the football field to the newspaper industry was interesting. "We are very similar in that when the grounds start to shift around us a little bit, we start to fall behind a little bit and all of a sudden because of Joe and because of some of the things I did, we were able to kind of get where we wanted to be," he said.
It was refreshing to see someone other than a journalist speaking on behalf of the newspaper industry and explaining a different take on how to make changes, especially since Paterno used an unexpected analogy to football.
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