If every newspaper account executive that has thought of themselves as a “print ad rep” follows Terry Widnener’s example … Terry Widener has been selling newspaper ads for 35 years. But until last fall, Ms. Widener, a 53-year-old saleswoman at...
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
Great vid on the end of the Rocky. Looks like one-time News Sentinel Photo Director Sonya Doctorian was involved in this project.
The Inland Press Association presented its New Frontier Awards during its annual meeting in San Antonio earlier this week and knoxnews won a top “General Excellence” award. The judges said: The Knoxville site is everything you want a news site...
How does a democracy work without (in-depth) news? It doesn’t. While most of the population will not care about access to high-quality news, there are always some who read to find out what’s really going on, and why. Dictatorships, totalitarian...
The whole piece on newspapers starts about 28 minutes in. (via Alfred Hermida on reportr.net)
My greatest fear with the challenges that newspapers face is the lack of lengthy, rigorous investigative reporting. I doubt that the next Woodward and Bernstein will be Twitter users: “OMG, R. Nixon’s flunkies broke into Wtrgte Htl.” Somebody has to...
By one estimate, a third of all US newspapers could be bankrupt by the summer. Last November, a study presented to US newspaper executives found that only one major publishing company, EW Scripps, was on a sound financial footing. And...
Baseball is called a sport of summer, but for high school (and college) teams, it starts in February. Bearden High School had a scrimmage Saturday with Catholic High. At least it was sunny, if a bit nippy in the wind....
It’s nice to see Jay Small blogging more. On Friday, he lays out some scenarios for the survival of printed news (not including the online migration of printed news). He suggests a combination of digital printing, customization and frequency changes...
Read Write Web on new Forrester study (from @jowyang): In 2007, the percentage of Boomers consuming social media was 46% for younger Boomers (ages 43 to 52) and 39% for older Boomers (ages 53 to 63). By 2008, those number...