I got an e-mail late last month from an area high school student named Hannah, who's interested in the field of journalism. She submitted a list of questions as part of a class research project.

Her questionnaire arrives at a pivotal time for print journalists like me. Newspaper circulation is on the decline in many communities (thankfully, not in Rochester, where our circulation grew last year). The Internet is dramatically changing the way news is gathered and distributed. There are more and more non-journalists out there who provide information to the public through Web logs, Twitter "tweets" and text messages.