I like this Top Ten Newspapers Web site list, too. It was done by Howard Owens, director of Digital Publishing at Gatehouse Media, who took issue with some of the picks in the Bivings Group Top 10 earlier this week. Of KnoxNews, he said: 5) KnoxNews.com. Jack Lail has long run one of the best…

Some of my younger co-workers say their perception of out-of-the-box thinking at a newspaper is of someone ever-so-slightly opening the top of the box and taking a furtive glance; maybe on a bold day, cautiously extending a moistened finger to check the direction of the wind. That mental picture is apt, unfortunately, more often than…