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It’s all about storytelling
Howard Weaver, McClatchy VP for News, and Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, both say good storytelling is the future for newspapers. Weaver was speaking Tuesday at the APME convention in Las Vegas. Boehne spoke Saturday at the Society of Professional Journalists convention in Atlanta. Weaver said newspapers and their editors and publishers will have…
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Pretty vs Practical
“I’m tired of the anecdotal bullshit.” That’s from Rob Curley, president/executive editor of Greenspun Interactive, which runs the Las Vegas Sun Web site. Curley, speaking at the APME convention Tuesday, said his site is benchmarking well-designed layouts of large photos and graphics with headlines vs blocks of headlines in an effort to get some data…
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Mainstream media can’t call a spade a spade
Saturday’s been a good day to find great quotes. Here’s another. “Big companies become risk-averse and are not willing to alienate power structures by calling a spade a spade, hence the lack of criticism that we saw in the run-up to the Iraq war. If that’s not the role of the fourth estate, I don’t…