Hi Gang,
I hope you’re all enjoying your summer. We just had the Women’s US Open golf tournament here in Denver at my club Cherry Hills. It was cool. I got to see an Auburn Tiger compete last Thursday when I went out and walked around. Nicole Hage was struggling a bit, but was definitely wearing her Tiger colors.
There was a neat article in the Sunday New York Times about the hometown newspaper in Lawrence, KS. Here’s the link, but if you don’t subscribe then here’s the gist of it. The Lawrence Journal World is a very progressive news operation that does, print, online, and cable TV reporting out of the same studio facility. Here’s a quote from the article:
“Mr. Simons told his editors and reporters that they were going to do more than merely work shoulder to shoulder; they were going to share reporting assignments, tasks and scoops - whether they liked it or not.
Many did not like it at all, and some World reporters say they sometimes still feel taken advantage of - when they are asked to squeeze multiple print, television and online duties into the course of a single day. Print reporters and their editors have, at times, been reluctant to share scoops or ideas with their television counterparts, and vice versa. But many reporters also said that, over time, they have adapted.
“You can really teeter on the edge of, ‘I’m not enjoying this and it’s not fair,’ to, ‘This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done,’ ” said Deanna Richards, a television reporter who works in World’s converged newsroom. The company currently has 81 news employees, an unusually large number for an operation of its size.”
Neat story about an old, family-owned operation that has stayed with the times.
