While journalists must adapt their work to changing times and advancing technology, they must retain:

a. a strict adherence to their guiding journalistic principles.

b. the awareness of ways to meet owner expectations for profit.

c. awareness that new competitive news outlets are more efficient without old-fashioned impediments of journalistic standards like gatekeeping.

d. shortcuts to verification such as use of anonymous and off the record sources.

e. common sense such as "you don't bite the hand that feeds you."