Gut check time: Do you think that the folks running your shop can get it done?

As I wrote earlier this week, the biggest challenge facing the journalism industry today is increased competition, mostly from the Web. Do you believe that the individuals managing your news organization are up to that challenge? Can they keep your news organization alive, financially viable and socially influential for the next decade?

If you are a solo publisher or blogger, you should vote on whether you trust yourself to be able to meet this challenge. If you work for an independent newsroom, you are voting on your publisher and upper-level management. If you work for a corporation, you are voting on both your local management as well as corporate leadership. After all, if one succeeds and the other fails… you still fail.

We would love to read, in the comments, your specific reasons why you think your news organization’s management will succeed, or fail.

Remember, you can log out and post anonymously now on OJR, if that makes you more comfortable writing honestly about your bosses. (Anonymous comments will be reviewed before being published and the submitting IP address will be posted with each anonymous comment. Registered members get their posts published immediately.)

I love online journalism, and, as OJR readers, I suspect that many of you do, too.

But… that doesn’t mean the field can drive you nuts now and then. What most frustrates you about producing news for a website? That’s the topic of this week’s OJR question.

Please offer some specifics in the comments, and we’ll continue the discussion there. Have a great weekend!