How to save the Dallas Morning News.... hope this isn't a repost

http://www.dmagazine.com//article.asp?articleid=1141

interesting piece... and something all newspaper editors should read.

 

Interesting reading, Jason. Thanks.

 

No harm in posting it twice, Jason, but it became a big part of the other DMN post below this one somewhere.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/31857/

 

Here's an Austin-American Statesman about the whole thing, published just today:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A406132

 

Wow, that's a leader talking.
Almost makes me wish I was 22 and willing to work for $20,000 a year.
Almost.

 

I can tell what isn't the answer - cramming all your text into a tee-tiny island surrounded by an ocean of white space.

 

"In other words, burn the field to the ground so it can grow back healthier. To focus entirely on local news requires an entirely different culture—fast-paced, aggressive, ambitious, and competitive. Young, inexpensive talent is the key, people who know how to work and people who know how to write."

wow. did bob jelloneck leave the board and contribute to that piece?

interpretation: slash and burn and stick it up anyone's ass with experience or a dedication to quality.

 

Current management should be lined up before a firing squad -- but you knew that.

But this guy's a cluck. Take it local, and offer wages only the youngest -- and
older knuckledragging morons -- would accept. Yes . . . make it The Trentonian
of Dallas. Good idea -- not.

 

I don't know if this would save the DMN, but it would save the sports department. Put Mike Fannin in charge.

 

C'mon, Jason. You want all newspaper editors to read the part about turning overpaid (sports) columnists into reporters? Surely, you plan to edit that part out first.