We’ll see. I bought my last Trib on 5 Nov 2008.
They have Ted Nugent as a featured columnist. I bookmarked the site for future reference.
Local ownership was the norm on most GOOD newspapers for many years. Until the purchase-downsize-LBO mania thing took over the MSM. It was done in the name of the efficiencies that AP was to bring. They no longer thought that they needed people who could think, they would simply purchase content cheaply.
Did not work. Was suicide pact for the newspapers.
The only way off the newspaper death watch, is to create local content that is worth reading.
AP = Always Propaganda
Found this interesting:
Looks like Clifton is a character. I like that.
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/07/16/ap6664464.html
Clifton Robinson announced that retired Tribune-Herald publisher Dan Savage will succeed publisher Belinda Gaudet on an interim basis. Cox officials say Gaudet will retire. In a memo to employees, Cox Media Group Executive Vice President Doug Franklin said all other Tribune-herald employees will be retained.
Waco-born Clifton Robinson and his son had sold their Waco-based companies based in the city, National Lloyds Insurance Co. and American Summit Insurance Co., to Englewood, Colo.-based Affordable Residential Communities ( ARC - news - people ) in 2007.
“I looked into starting a newspaper 25 years ago, but it cost too much,” he said.
HEY! The Waco trib printed my first negative review as a candidate. If you don’t get run down by the Trib, you aren’t a real conservative! In that vein, I took it as a high honor:
Surely the liberal editors won’t have to go job hunting?!
Clifton Robinson
...any relation to Jim Thompson?
Keep the print readable - newspaper readers are older - if the paper's good, the young will grow into it... if it's not you'll never get them anyhow.
Explore new technology - Bill Gates can design a down-loadable flat sheet - don't fight technology - bend it to your needs.
A newspaper is not a stage for “art-teests” to prance upon - it's a medium to bring information to readers.
Readers interaction with your paper happens at the circulation level - monitor that department with your life...
Vanity circulation doesn't help the people who are buying ads and supporting the paper. Don't give into it. You offer value and must honestly give value.
Reporters and editors should be fired if they make up quotes, accept gifts ( that included coffee - make it water).
Mix in the best national columnists - again - the paper's not a stage for local talent - it's a vehicle for disbursing quality information.
Some of us think breakfast is coffee and a newspaper - we want to be here for you ...