The merged environment coming

James Brady, the Washington Post's web editor, expects a merger of his operation and the Post's newsroom. Why not? It makes sense. I get a kick out of people bemoaning merging media operations, like having print reporters do broadcast or web reports like it's never happened before. My wife's father used to read news from The Milwaukee Journal for its fledgling television operation in the 1940s. In fact, a corner of the print newsroom was set aside for a broadcast studio. It wasn't a problem for reporters then, and it shouldn't be now.