The quiet evangelist: fresh from vanquishing the Murdoch empire, Alan Rusbridger can claim to be the Guardian's greatest editor. But with the company fast running out of cash--and his zeal for online journalism creating tensions at the paper--will he also be its last?

These are heady days for the Guardian and its editor, Alan Rusbridger. The News of the World, once the highest-circulation Sunday newspaper in the English-speaking world, is dead. Its proprietor, [...]