Newspapers must abandon ‘1800s business model’ and reconnect with their communities, professor says

The bread industry has evolved more than the newspaper business in 200 years.

-Teri Finneman, Kansas journalism professor BROKEN BOW- When University of Kansas journalism professor Teri Finneman gives a talk about the survival of rural newspapers, she brings along three items: a bottle of soda pop, a Twix candy bar and a copy of a newspaper.

The soda and the candy bar cost more than twice as much as the newspaper, she explains, and take seconds to produce, unlike the newspap…