He said newspapers were doing a good job of pushing for their share of the growing online advertising market, but questioned whether online revenues would be enough to maintain quality journalism.
"There is much less revenue in online journalism than in print and down the line, if newspapers have a downward trend in readership, then online journalism could follow."
He said readers might read a print newspaper five or six times a day, but might only use a website six to eight times each month.
The session was covered by multimedia journalism student Will Grimes, one of a team of students covering the seventh annual symposium organised by the University of Texas. Webcasts of the full programme from the two-day event will be archived on the symposium website shortly.
Alongside US panellists, speakers included Juan Carlos Luján Zavala, editor of Peru's ElComercio.com.pe, Vincent Maher, director of South Africa's New Media Lab at Rhodes University and Jose Manuel Valenzuela, editor of Spanish the multimedia magazine ep3.es, published by El Pais.
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