By MélissaMatt Thompson is the co-creator and producer of EPIC 2014 and Epic 2015, two 8-minutes long Flash movies that explore the future of news online. In his documentary--if you could call it that-- he shows how Google and Amazon, could create auto-generated news, based on readers' preferences. That would lead, as he shows, to the bankruptcy of print journalism references, like the New York Times.So we tried to figure out whether a community newspaper like The Columbia Missourian, which has a peculiar model (staffed by but not owned by MU, or something like that) could survive and how editors and reporters could think its future.We met Matt in his office at the Reynolds Institute of Journalism.He currently works on research about Wikipedia in the news. He proposed a new concept for daily news:Imagine if the work of the hundreds of reporters dispatched daily to cover a city didn’t merely fade into an obscure archive, but added day after day to the work that came before it. An online news site in the era of Wikipedia would be a living archive, adaptable to suit any context, growing to encompass all aspects of life in a community.Read more on Matt Thompson's blog: Newless.Tim contributed to this post.