In his latest innovation memo, Tribune Co.’s chief innovation officer, Lee Abrams, wrote this:
“Writers NEED designers to take their work to a wider audience in today’s TV rooted reader.”
I couldn’t have said it better. We’ve elaborated for years about how visual editing will help newspapers survive in an era of heavy TV viewership and winnowing attention spans. We’re a more visual culture, like it or not.
Even the smallest newspaper will see gains once a more visually savvy presentation is adopted. Of course, you have to have the content to begin with. If the content sucks, no one’s going to care what you do with the paper.
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Betcha no one saw this coming: A reader of the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is suing the newspaper for breach of contract. His logic: Just after he renewed his subscription, they cut staff and news hole, and they’re not giving him what he renewed for.
Keith Hempstead, an attorney and former reporter for The Fayetteville Observer, said in his complaint in Wake Superior Court: “Plaintiff alleges fraud in that the newspaper announced changes in the coverage after procuring renewals from Plaintiff and other subscribers.”
Hempstead told the N&O he could cancel his subscription, but he filed the suit to make a point.
“I wanted to get the newspaper’s attention and the news industry’s attention,” he said adding that he enjoys the N&O.
Read more here, from the News & Observer.
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Are we rollin’ downhill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the flag and the Liberty Bell?
I wish a Ford and a Chevy would still last 10 years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now? Are the good times really over for good?
— Merle Haggard, “Are The Good Times Really Over?”
Last week, a bombshell came from San Jose, one that made me think again about what newspaper managers are really trying to accomplish with layoffs and buyouts. (Seems like assisted suicide, but no one’s called Michigan’s Finest, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, yet. Yet.)
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