If all that sounds like a gossamer bit of Web 2.0 preciousness, consider that Gannett is in the process of remaking the newsrooms at its 90 newspapers into “information centers,” a place where readers are given access to all the tools of journalism including, yes, the journalists themselves.

gossamer (adj) 1: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy [syn: ethereal] 2: so thin as to transmit light [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby] – All the World’s a Story