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By: Jim Rosenberg Production-management veteran Chuck Blevins and architect Dario DiMare have long aided the operations side of newspapers. Blevins has devoted years to advising on matters of quality practices and production-distribution …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald After a few decades of outpacing daily circulation increases — and growing even as weekday numbers flattened, then declined — the Sunday edition in the late 1990s ceased being the industry’s circulation driver. …
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By: Shawn Moynihan NABJ, NAHJ and other groups re-evaluate strategy for membership and annual confabs It’s no secret: Times are hard, especially for journalists of color. As newsroom staffs are continually downsized, the percentages of minority …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald For all their efforts to create one-order/one-bill networks over the decades, newspapers have yet to shake the perception among big agencies that buying newspaper ads across multiple markets is a hassle. Ad buyers gravitate to …
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By: Shawn Moynihan When USA Today Publisher David Hunke announced on Aug. 27 that his newspaper was undergoing a major reconstruction that included the repositioning of many key executives on both the news and business sides — as well as the …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald Venezuela’s short-lived ban on publishing gruesome photos spotlights a Latin American newspaper tradition Even in a violent neck of the woods of Latin America, Venezuela’s murder rate stands out as shockingly …
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By: Rob Tornoe Cathy Guisewite has decided to retire her much-adored comic strip Cathy, which has been adorning women’s refrigerator doors and cubicle walls since its debut in 1976. Now, editors at nearly 1,400 newspapers face a dilemma: …
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By: Jim Rosenberg and Mark Fitzgerald Even in good times, newspapers, kidding on the square, referred to themselves as The Daily Miracle. Nowhere perhaps does that name resonate more than in operations, with its Pandora’s Box of everyday travails …
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By: P.J. Bednarski AOL is committing millions to hyperlocal sites in hundreds of markets. So why do local newspapers seem so unconcerned? The new hyperlocal AOL project Patch is adding more new Websites every day, with microsites set up to cover …
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By: Tom Ratkovich There are encouraging signs that newsmedia organizations are not only transitioning into new models, they are also starting to succeed. This success comes from engaging their customers in a more informed and relevant manner. …
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By: E&P Staff According to Newsweek reporter Jonathan Alter’s book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Barack Obama personally finds unauthorized leaks of government information deeply offensive, explaining his near-Nixonian obsession …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald When The Denver Post referred to the “late” C.W. McCall, it didn’t make just an embarrassing mistake — the singer with the Citizens Band AM-radio era hit Convoy is living just 190 miles away in Ouray, …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald In his 20 years with the Dallas-based International Newsmedia Marketing Association — 18 of them as INMA’s executive director and CEO — Earl J. Wilkinson has logged nearly three million miles visiting newspapers …
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By: E&P Staff Media General Inc. (NYSE: MEG) Recent closing price: $10.38 52-week trading range: $4.34 (Aug. 4, 2009) to $13.60 (May 17, 2010) 52-week change in value: 114.1% S&P 500 change in same period: 11.4% The good …
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By: Jim Rosenberg It was hyperlocal. It was citizen journalism. It was 1938. The hyperlocal content was high school sports results, the citizen journalist was usually a coach calling in game scores and highlights, and in 1938 Sid Dorfman was a …
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By: Jim Rosenberg Homeland Security thinks newspapers are a vital national asset to be protected against terrorism. So why are newspapers so seemingly blasé about the department’s efforts to help them? Three years after preparing a report aimed …
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By: Shawn Moynihan It was the Leak Heard ’Round the World. This summer the independent Website WikiLeaks published six years’ worth of classified military information on the war in Afghanistan — tens of thousands of classified military field …
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By: Jim Rosenberg U.S. newspapers didn’t wait for the economy to start hollowing out before emptying out their production plants. By the time many readers found their homes were costing more than they were worth, newspapers already were shuttering …
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By: Mark Fitzgerald AMERICAS EXTRALatin American newspapers are in a good place right now, as this space discussed in the August issue of E&P. While North American papers struggle to reverse the decline of recent years, Latin American dailies have …
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