Here is the latest installment in a seemingly endless series of personal stories about the troubles of the profession I love — and hate to see struggling:

Loss and destruction have been almost all that I’ve ever known in journalism. Sure, there has been great work along the way, almost always at the individual level. But many of those innovators that I chronicled at BeatBlogging.org moved on to other jobs and other fields.

And that was depressing. These were our beacons of light, and they couldn’t make it. The journalism industry has lost a lot of journalists and many of those that it lost were the best, brightest and most innovative.

But the real problem isn’t a journalism problem. Journalism is moving forward. It’s a business-model problem, and that’s something I can’t help that much with.

But enough on newspapers. There isn’t much more to say about them. And soon most of what will be said about them will be said in history books.

Journalism will live on. It will one day thrive again. The people that will be producing it and how they will produce will be foreign to us. We’ll know the light at the end of the tunnel when we see it.

I’m anxious to see that light. Although I’m still actively editing and writing stories — and even developing new skills in video — I have been out of the daily news business for two years now and miss it dearly. I want to be in a newsroom again. Someone please figure out how to make steady money in the news business again!