{"id":107,"date":"2003-10-02T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=107"},"modified":"2003-10-02T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T09:10:49","slug":"required-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/required-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Required reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the headline says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=3411\">State of the American Newspaper.<\/a>&#8221;  Excerpt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How are newspapers coping as they try to make sense of the uncertainty in Iraq and stay in position to cover terrorism everywhere? To find out, I spoke with editors at four papers: the Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe, with medium-size rosters of foreign bureaus but a commitment to covering the world; the Chicago Tribune, with 10 bureaus, the largest number after the big four (the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal); and the Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P><br \/>\nSpeaking of American Journalism Review, Tim Porter has an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=3415\">Spanish-language editions<\/a> of local newspapers.   Excerpt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Put another way, many Hispanics, the nation&#8217;s largest ethnic community and the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, cannot read&#8211;or choose not to read&#8211;mainstream newspapers in English even though they hunger for information to help them make the transition from immigrant to citizen.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nThe dilemma of the newspaper industry&#8211;desperate for new audiences but excluded by language from the one with the most potential&#8211;is summed up by Alberto Ibarg?en, publisher of the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald: &#8220;I can put out the most wonderful newspaper in English, and if you can&#8217;t read English, it doesn&#8217;t make any difference that it&#8217;s the most wonderful newspaper. And that&#8217;s the reality we have.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the headline says &#8220;State of the American Newspaper.&#8221; Excerpt: How are newspapers coping as they try to make sense of the uncertainty in Iraq and stay in position to cover terrorism everywhere? To find out, I spoke with editors&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/required-reading\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}