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National pastime's shame
Baseball has suffered scars, from Pete Rose to the ’94 strike – but none worse than the steroids scandal
Matt Erickson is design director at The Times of Northwest Indiana, Munster, and the founder of Kern Redesign (kernredesign.com). He is the Region 4 Director for the Society for News Design, a member of its Competition Committee and past coordinator of its annual competition. Reach him at matterickson23@gmail.com.
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Updated 07/01/2008
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Local college student bloggers bring fresh ideas
Diane Barney is editor of The Reporter in Vacaville, Calif., and can be reached at dbarney@thereporter.com. Visit Reporter U.
HOW CAN A SMALL DAILY NEWSPAPER develop a team of young and enthusiastic correspondents in cities across the country? By asking college students to share their experiences. The Reporter, a 20,000-circulation newspaper in Vacaville, Calif., began a college blogging experiment, dubbed “Reporter U” with five college students in 2006. We now have nine students who file weekly reports from across the state, and even at campuses as far away as Arkansas and Utah.
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Updated 06/30/2008
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The leadership challenge of transformation
Edward D. Miller is a newsroom leadership coach and management consultant to newspapers around the world. He is aformer director of ASNE and a founder of the Society for News Design. Reach him at miller@newsroomleadership.com
BRITISH AUTHOR CHARLES HANDY RELATES the story of a member of Parliament, who in his frustration with the accelerating pace of change in England, cried out in the House of Commons: “Why can’t the status quo be the way forward?” Who among us has not yearned for a return to a status quo when newspapers had readers and revenues in abundance? It’s clear that those days are gone; the business model that has supported daily journalism since World War II is unsustainable. What’s not clear is what will replace it. Inventing that future will test our industry’s power of transformation.
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Updated 06/30/2008
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