BANGKOK -- "Melt down the presses and auction off the metal," said Todd Ruiz during a recent media panel in Bangkok. "Thailand's fourth estate crisis is a self-inflicted wound."
The blunt-speaking Californian editor of Khaosod English, a small but growing online news service spun off from a daily in the respected Matichon Publishing Group, believes the traditional press has calcified and lost its way, but "can remain viable in the formats of the future by rediscovering the purpose of its past."
