By: E&P Staff The Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post announced content sharing plans today. Editors will exchange routine news stories and feature articles starting on Monday -- while continuing to compete in most ways.
?All of us cut staff this summer, and this plan allows us to provide more reporting to our readers,? said Post Editor John Bartosek, in an article in his paper.
An excerpt from Miami Herald's report follows.
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Editors of the three papers said they will preserve the competition that has been a hallmark of South Florida's newspaper business for decades by limiting the sharing to routine news. Broader stories, investigative pieces, columns and feature stories will not be part of the exchange, they said. El Nuevo Herald, El Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale and La Palma in West Palm Beach also will be a part of the exchange.
''Our goal is to better serve our South Florida audiences while protecting the individual brands and identities of our respective newspapers,'' a statement from the editors said.
Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal said that the move was part of many innovations the paper is launching in the midst of the changing media landscape. He said the papers need to begin working together to enhance and extend the newspaper style of journalism in an era of intense competition.
``This is a time to try things, to see what new ideas make our papers and websites better, to break with traditions in the name of providing new and stronger coverage for newspaper readers and websites.''
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