In recent years, most calls from journalists to "invest more in the newsroom" and "pay for editorial quality" have elicited scoffs from media owners.
The money men have tended to view such requests as self-serving wishes by entrenched, old-media dinosaurs who loathed the new workload brought on by the Internet and failed to understand the economics of the business. At newspapers in particular, newsroom cuts - not increased investments - have been the order of the day.
But now, a study ...