I'm the founder and editor of ArtsJournal.com, the leading aggregator of arts journalism on the internet. The site is almost 7 years old, and it reaches a readership of 300,000 through the website and our newsletters. Before ArtsJournal I was an arts columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I also worked at the P-I as arts reporter and classical music critic. I have also written for Salon.com, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and the London Evening Standard among others. I lecture around the country on cultural issues and arts journalism, and I run an annual conference of classical music critics at the Aspen Music Festival.

Arts journalism faces enormous challenges today. The field is being reinvented underneath us, and I don't think anyone knows what it's going to look like out the other side. But shouldn't there be somebody talking about what it ought to be? Somebody studying the field and arguing for best practices, somebody working to make it better for arts journalism and arts journalists? With the closing of NAJP, there hasn't been anyone. NAJP has a great pedigree and any number of places would love to take the program in or be afilliated with it in some way. Finding a home isn't such a problem. Finding the funding to get it up and running again is. I see the primary job of the new NAJP to articulate a compelling vision of what it wants to be and use that to attract the funding to pay fo it.