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Running GOOD NEWS in journalism thread

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by thesnowman, May 29, 2009.

  1. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Since we actually hired my boss after ten months of searching, the two-man sports department at our tiny paper is actually beginning to bear a hazy resemblance to a quality product.
     
  2. OnTheRiver

    OnTheRiver Active Member

    My shithole (ahem, Bubbler, you ass) has been putting out some quality reporting on child deaths in our coverage area.

    Been good Sunday enterprise work. I'll find a link and post later.
     
  3. OnTheRiver

    OnTheRiver Active Member

    I can't believe I used the word "shithole" in my 5,000th post. And it only took 6 years for me to get there.

    SHITHOLE!
     
  4. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    We have had 600 new subscriptions this year.
     
  5. expendable

    expendable Well-Known Member

    Our subscription sales have grown over the last year. Ad sales are down, but no worse than a regular recession, and they appear to be picking back up.
     
  6. Sneed

    Sneed Guest

    I just graduated with a BS in Mass Communications with a concentration in print/electronic journalism after spending years working as the paper's sports editor, managing editor, and editor-in-chief and have accrued a resume laden with print journalism experience into which I have sunk my life the past four years.

    Oh, wait. This is the GOOD news thread? Whoops.

    OK, no, seriously, I am getting married and living in a city where the SE of a mid-sized daily has given me some pretty consistent freelance work that could turn into a full-time job soon. That's promising. I also have a couple of connections to Our State magazine in NC that could land me some freelance work for them in the near future, also promising. And I'm writing a book....although I need to get an agent, but it's one of those stories that you'd work on for free if you didn't have to help support the wife and Jack Russell Terrier, so that may turn into something also promising.

    In surprisingly optimistic shape for a fresh-faced kid on the block in this storm.
     
  7. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    For the first time in my shop, we're sitting down tomorrow with advertising to game-plan an approach to the fall football tab that should let us come close to last year's ad percentages, or maybe even do better, in a tough environment. A significant change of approach is involved and I'll report back here as we go along.
     
  8. EE94

    EE94 Guest

    speaking "like" this is bad enough, but WRITING it?
     
  9. Sneed

    Sneed Guest

    Oh, come on EE. Surely you have better things to do than criticize stuff like that, or at least better threads in which to do it. This is the feel-good thread. You take that Debbie Downer-ness somewhere else.
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I love football tabs. They are a sports journalist's career in microcosm: Fun to plan, hell to execute, and awesome to look at when you're done.
     
  11. Editude

    Editude Active Member

    Went to a hipster cafe the other day for breakfast and saw a ton of people reading the printed copy of our paper. In 2009. The portability and shareability still matter.
     
  12. Andy _ Kent

    Andy _ Kent Member

    I was going to cite the fact for that for the first time in I can't remember how long the first page of this board was devoid of any news involving layoffs, furloughs, cutbacks or closing, but then I just came across the Philadelphia Bulletin thread. :'(
     
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