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Category: Industry commentary
Dumping on Gannett
I never waste a chance to link to stories trashing the Evil Empire of newspapering. Here’s one on shenanigans in the Indianapolis market. Here’s one on Gannett launching four free weeklies targeting young readers. And here’s one on advertising prospects…
On unpaid interns
An interesting thread at Testy Copy Editors debates the pluses and minuses. Speaking for the defense, Pam says: I arrange unpaid internships for my copy desk. I will agree that many shops misuse interns. But that doesn’t mean the concept…
Coverage of TV is lame, he says
In addition to our multitude of sins on other fronts, it seems we don’t cover the TV business worth a damn, either. I guess what I’ve learned is that the media have reflexively searched for the easy answers to trends…
On the design font, er, front
Newsdesigner links to a discussion about doglegs. Infomaniac links to a photographer at a smalltown paper who frets that we’re getting Poynterized. Our editor has signed all the reporters up to receive the daily blog called Al’s Morning Meeting. It…
Guilty as charged
William Powers in the National Journal: If you’re a respectable media outlet doing a Jackson story, there’s a kind of purification rite you have to perform, in which you demonstrate that although you yourself are technically part of the feeding…
Young guy to press: make it matter
Young guy Clay on getting younger readers: Young people will read newspapers if they think the newspapers are worth their time and energy. It really is that simple. A clumsy piece of pandering won’t help, especially if it bulges with…
Reeling in the years
I’m scanning the newsie sites this morning and notice three headlines about publications essentially zoning by age … basing critical assumptions about reader/consumer behavior on how old people are. New York Times: In interviews this fall, Mr. Tanner asked several…
Dan, give somebody else a chance
Here’s a New York Times profile of Dan Rather, who’s hanging on to that anchor desk like it’s the only thing keeping him alive. At 72, Mr. Rather is eight years older than Walter Cronkite was when he left the…
Paul Simon on the nature of news
No, not the and-Garfunkel guy, I’m talking about former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (who has such a great voice it’s a shame he didn’t become a talk radio jock), who used to own small newspapers in southern Illinois before he…