Digital First pursuing Gannett

[BTExpress]

Knoxville's Gannett paper with a couple of beauts today.

Front-page story about how Tennessee coaches motivate players jumps to a photo of . . . Bob Lanier? (Tennessee has an assistant named Rob Lanier).

Deck head on sports front says:

Vols say they're hungry
to prove they can be at
they're best as they open
NCAAs against Colgate

 

[Regan MacNeil]

That's an institutional problem, not on any individual designer or editor.

Those Gannett studios are ****ing sweatshops (ditto GateHouse, etc.).

You have one designer doing the work that used to take 10-12 people. And I think most Gannett papers have done away with on-site editors checking the pages at night.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Knoxville's Gannett paper with a couple of beauts today.

Front-page story about how Tennessee coaches motivate players jumps to a photo of . . . Bob Lanier? (Tennessee has an assistant named Rob Lanier).

Deck head on sports front says:

Vols say they're hungry
to prove they can be at
they're best as they open
NCAAs against Colgate

To be fair, though, the story has a part that talks about Bob Lanier, who is a cousin to Rob Lanier. I'd hope the cutline would mention that part of his story, but nothing would surprise me.

The "they're" is inexcusable to me. I wonder about the process - at my former shop, the reporter/"coach" is the one who wrote the heds and subheds, and the designer would make them fit and/or adjust the wording as needed.

I had a "coach" who edited a feel-good story I worked on for weeks about a kid and his family. It was a Sunday 1A centerpiece, and was a damn good read. The coach started to edit the subhed that I wrote, then went back and re-typed my subhed … but spelled the family's last name incorrectly. Wasn't caught by the producer on site, and we (I) looked like an idiot who couldn't spell the name correctly in display type.

I came unglued, and was told to "calm the **** down" because it "isn't that big of a deal."

To this day, just thinking about it makes my blood pressure spike.

 

[BTExpress]

To be fair, though, the story has a part that talks about Bob Lanier, who is a cousin to Rob Lanier. I'd hope the cutline would mention that part of his story, but nothing would surprise me.

Must have gotten cut out of the dead tree version of the story. Which is odd, as the photo is a large, three-column mug shot that certainly did not need to run that large. Caption only said that Bob Lanier did not play in the 1970 Final Four because of a knee injury.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Holy ****, that's bad then. I just saw the online version.

 

[Fran Curci]

Look at where we've arrived when it comes to editing: "at my former shop, the reporter/"coach" is the one who wrote the heds and subheds ..."

 

[danielpaulling]

Knoxville's Gannett paper with a couple of beauts today.

Front-page story about how Tennessee coaches motivate players jumps to a photo of . . . Bob Lanier? (Tennessee has an assistant named Rob Lanier).

Deck head on sports front says:

Vols say they're hungry
to prove they can be at
they're best as they open
NCAAs against Colgate

Local paper (Gatehouse) published baseball game story, but called the team that played the Podunk High basketball team. Headline was “No room for error.” (The team committed a lot of errors and lost.)

 

[BTExpress]

My go-to was always, "To err is human, but all the time?"

 

[DanOregon]

Catching up on Sports Illustrated I noticed the published the masthead listing of all the staffers and noticed a whopping five copy editors on the copy desk. Also noticed the list of Senior Writers seemed a little less impressive than it has.

Also noticed the correction in the Letters section that they identified a Clemson defensive back (and other defensive players) as members of the Clemson offense celebrating a touchdown in the national title game. No big whoop - it was only the caption on the two page photo that led the article. Now that is a mistake.

 

[Readallover]

GCI stock is below $10. Not good for those opposed to DFM purchase.

 

[HanSenSE]

Under federal investigation, Alden pulls half its proposed Gannett takeover slate

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Quote of the year

“We certainly fear the ruthless and brutal reputation of DFM/Alden in the US newspaper industry, but we are finding it hard to cheer for Gannett,”

The other side of Alden’s Gannett takeover threat

 

[ChadFelter]

Looks like Gannett staved off the charge:

Gannett board members reelected as shareholders reject MNG nominees

 

[LanceyHoward]

Looks like Gannett staved off the charge:

Gannett board members reelected as shareholders reject MNG nominees

MNG never came up with the cash.