Photo courtesy John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Foundation CEO and president image:41365:3::0

Its mission is the betterment of the 26 communities in which it works and the promotion of journalism as a career and industry nationwide.

That puts Alberto Ibargüen, CEO of the Knight Foundation and a former publisher of the Miami Herald, at the same crossroads that silent movies encountered with talkies, talkies with radio, radio with television, television with cable, and now traditional print journalism with online reporting, blogs, podcasting, v-logs, streaming media, and so on.

Since 1950, the Knight Foundation has invested more than $300 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide. It has a vital interest in seeing journalism survive in whatever form it takes.

I interviewed Ibargüen recently for an old media business magazine and liked his approach to a rapidly changing world, and I was delighted when he accepted my invitation for a second round of conversation.

You can LISTEN to this interview by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player above!

Bob Andelman Bob Andelman, a.k.a., Mr. Media image:41006:0::0