The New York Times, and everyone else, hopes Apple will help save the news business

You can hear the mix of glee and wonder in New York Times CEO Mark Thompson's voice when he gets on the phone and immediately says, "I'm surrounded by developers." What journalist isn't these days? But Thompson is speaking literally: he made the pilgrimage to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the tech giant revealed a host of updates to its music and maps services Perhaps more importantly for Thompson — and an entire industry of journalists who frequently feel tha...