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Read More »Outstanding journalists 2018
Rachel Crosby Just 24 hours after being named one of Nevada’s journalists of merit, Rachel Crosby was among the first reporters to respond to reports of a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas that turned out to be the worst mass killing in the history of the …
Read More »Have we ever experienced a time like this in the news business?
By Kevin Slimp I’ve been noticing a couple of patterns lately, and I wonder if you have been, too. More for fun than anything, and to keep up with as much as possible in the newspaper business, I created stateofnewspapers.com a few months back. A quick check at the unique …
Read More »Remember the story of the hot-dog salesman?
By Peter W. Wagner Some of you may remember the story, strongly circulated a decade ago, about a man who sold hot dogs along the side of a road. The man didn’t hear very well so he didn’t have a radio. He had eye problems, so he didn’t read the …
Read More »Scammed? Not if you were reading the paper
By Peter Wagner We published at least three stories recently regarding older Sheldon citizens being scammed over the phone for thousands of dollars. But even though the first two crimes were printed in our Sheldon Mail-Sun in detail, a third individual was taken for soon after for $16,000. When asked …
Read More »Training webinars coming soon
Webinars and video-training classes are a cost-effective, convenient way to upgrade your skills and offer advancement to your staff. Here’s a list of Online Media Campus, Newspaper Academy and Poynter News University sessions coming up: Dec. 6 — Mobile Photojournalism 201 Dec. 13 — Gaining Digital Readers Without Sacrificing Print …
Read More »How to spot a trend
By Bart Pfankuch A major goal of news reporting is to keep readers abridged of things, so it makes sense that uncovering and understanding trends should be part of any writer’s toolbox. Editors — and readers — love trend reporting. Editors puff up when they’re outlet is first to report …
Read More »Writing tips
David Beard’s Morning MediaWire from Poynter has these tips, and he promises more. Here’s the full column, where you can also sign up for the daily newsletter. From Paul Janensch: As an editor at four newspapers and an associate professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University, these were among the writing …
Read More »Common traits of successful newspapers
By Kevin Slimp I really didn’t expect to do much traveling this summer, but plans don’t always work out as expected and that certainly has been the case for me. The truth is I really love working with newspapers and when I get a call from a paper within a …
Read More »Biggest problem with newspapers today
By Peter Wagner The biggest problem publishing newspapers today is public perception. Every newspaper, from the largest metro to the smallest family-owned community weekly, is judged by the actions of all the others. If a large chain decides to reduce the number of day they publish or the size of their …
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