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Big news in Michigan

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2008.

  1. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Price goes up, outlying areas no longer get delivery.
    Meaning, and just guessing here, if your paper had two editions, such as city and region, the first-run or region edition goes away. One press run for the night, consolidate routes so you no longer need as many circulation managers, and also drop carriers.
    So instead of having split deadlines, you go to one deadline, and probably the same one as the old regional edition. So, in theory, if you got those papers labeled in time, you could get them to a regional sorting center for the post office and you could have mail delivery aka the gold standard of newspaper and one that allows them to shed much of its circulation staff.
    Each paper will probably, assuming they already aren't doing this, do some sort of weekly, total market penetration broadsheet that will go out in the mail.
     
  2. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    One would think.
     
  3. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Amen....
     
  4. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    That should be interesting...
    Since a great deal of sports -- especially in Ann Arbor -- is done with part timers, good luck with high schools...
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Read this in a start-up paper oin A2, but don't know if its print or online...

    Copy editors, page designers and graphic artists – essentially, the production staff – are being told that if they don’t accept a buyout, they’ll have to work from the Grand Rapids Press office. The Press is the largest of the Newhouse papers in Michigan. Advertorial products will be centralized at the Kalamazoo Gazette. Other papers in the group are the Jackson Citizen Patriot, Flint Journal, Bay City Times, Muskegon Chronicle and Saginaw News.

    I was under the assumption that the daily stuff would be GR and Kazoo... this is even worse...
     
  6. MGoBlue

    MGoBlue Member

    Slappy,

    They are crying in their beers at The Arena tonight.
    It was package day ... who can post?
     
  7. jackandcoke

    jackandcoke Member

  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Yeah.. Carty hit it on the head.
    And he's right, he's not going to endear himself to his coworkers.
     
  9. RTJ

    RTJ Member

    I'm appalled, Jay.

    How can you realistically expect to write an interesting game story if you're just interested in filling in the blanks? It's not about the final score, it's about the story inside the game.

    Pigeonholing yourself like that cheats your readers and shows laziness.
     
  10. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Just got through that. Not much in there that hasn't been stated and restated here over the past year or so.
    Some of the hair-brained things they tried sound a lot like things tried at a paper I'm familiar with ... with similar (lack of) results.
     
  11. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    Funny that Carty posted that yesterday. A co-worker heard on NPR, that a blog had written that the Saginaw News, Flint Journal and some other Booth Paper were going to publish only 3 days a week. Of course, I can't find it online.
     
  12. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    I'm a dummy; it's the blog Carty linked to.

    http://papertigernomore.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-newhouse-journalism-not-gimmicks.html
     
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