Sunday, December 30, 2007

Hot Off the Press: Florida Today

This is this morning's Florida Today; click on the image for a bigger view. The paper's executive editor, Terry Eberle, tied for Editor of the Year in the Best of Gannett awards this year. That catapulted him and Today into that Gannett fishbowl where rival GCI editors watch (sometimes hopefully) for signs of a screw-up. (This reminds me: When editors get together in the bar at the Ritz-Carlton at Tysons Corner, do they wear all their President's Rings -- or just the most recent one?)

Eberle wrote not long ago about how new technologies like text-messaging are shaping decisions by editors to publish once-verboten stories -- like news about bomb threats at public schools.

Florida Today at a glance:
  • Publisher: Mark Mikolajczyk
  • Executive Editor: Terry Eberle
  • Founded: 1966 (by Gannett's Cape Publications)
  • Employees: 600

Florida Today staffers: I'm always looking for correspondents. Use this link to e-mail your contact information. See Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the sidebar, upper right. Or leave a note in the comments section, below.

[Image: Newseum]

2 comments:

  1. Regarding your question on wearing multiple President's Rings: You only get one ring. Each time you win subsequently, a diamond chip gets added to the original ring.

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  2. There goes the image I had of editors wielding rings on every finger -- just like brass knuckles.

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