Dressing Up an Important Piece
W hen the bravo network approached USA Today to do a story on the new series The Fashion Show hosted by famed designer Isaac Mizrahi, the paper "wanted a new twist, something unique, something that would make readers stop and take notice," says People/Style Editor Alison Maxwell.
Tweets Smell of Excess?
So when did Twitter become a major factor for newspapers? Was it when The New York Times' main Twitter account reached 884,000 followers? When the Los Angeles Times added its 144th account? Or was it when both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post were forced to issue new staff guidelines for this social media in a span of two days?
Weekly Editors Get Booked
History can be writ large in small community newspapers. That's one reason Tom Riordan, with 37 years as a newsman —16 of them publishing weeklies in Ohio and Michigan — set out to profile many of the country's small-town editors back in 1978. For more than 15 years, he and his wife drove their travel trailer more than 50,000 miles to interview 92 editors in every state but Hawaii.
Online-Only Experiment Makes its Own Way
When GateHouse Media executives were ready to experiment with an online-only news model, they turned to then-Director of Digital Publishing Howard Owens to head up the project. Owens scouted for locations before finally settling on Batavia, N.Y.
In Tough Times, Q Syndicate Hopes for 'Unity'
Several months ago, Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz, publishers of the Michigan-based gay and lesbian newspaper Between The Lines, went from being customers of Q Syndicate to its owners. They didn't hesitate when Todd Evans, president and CEO of the New Jersey-based LGBT media placement agency Rivendell Media, offered to sell a majority interest in the syndicate he acquired in 2001.
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When Online Carries the Day: Newsrooms Learn to Adapt as Print Editions Expire
When The Item of Sumter, S.C., dropped its Monday print edition in April, it wasn't a simple matter of posting that day's news on its Web site. Managing Editor Chip Chase also had to move Monday's comics and other feature columns online, too, and publish Monday's obituaries and police reports in the Tuesday print edition — requiring twice the usual space for those items. Chase had his lone reporter on Sundays post news briefs online and write print stories for the following Tuesday. He also had
Following Traffic: When There's No Paper, Do Readers Flock to Web?
Following the sagas that played out in Denver and Albuquerque, Seattle has become the latest market that can no longer support two major dailies. Hearst in January was forced to make a critical decision on what to do with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Kill the P-I altogether, or let it live online. It chose, of course, the latter — and March 17 marked the last day a Post-Intelligencer print edition would roll off its presses. But was this a terribly sad, or actually quite promising turning point?
Shaw Enough
Six or seven years ago, in a very different news- paper jobs market, it seemed that a family-owned group would have to be aggressive to entice journalists and executives to its smallish papers in the far suburbs of Chicago and rural Iowa. So Shaw Newspapers hired an agency to create recruiting materials.
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Moving to the Web
What happens when newspapers decide to kill print editions? Do readers flock to the Web?
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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
ARMEND NIMANI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, MAY 6 |
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