Personnel - Can a new kind of "bean counter" save newspapers? - "For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word - Statististics" - NYTimes.com

Newspapers may need to be thinking about a whole new class of "number crunchers" as newspapers figure out how to get on the other side of today's crises. Has it become essential for newspapers to employ people who really understand what Google and other companies our doing in using statistical measurements to define product offerings and marketing?