This is today's Pensacola News Journal; click on the image for a bigger view. The paper offers a smart angle this morning on how the slowing economy is hurting more vulnerable workers. "Even in the best of times, workers who depend on tips for a substantial part of their income -- food servers, bartenders, cab drivers and hairdressers -- often struggle to keep afloat,'' the paper's Troy Moon writes. "But as gas prices, food prices and retail prices attest, these are far from the best of times. Folks are holding tighter to their wallets as the economy gets rockier. Just ask your favorite waiter or waitress."The News Journal at a glance:
- Publisher: Kevin Doyle
- Executive Editor/Director of Content and Readership Development: Dick Schneider
- Founded: 1889
- Joined Gannett: 1969
- Employees: 420
- Circulation: 57,148 daily; 71,139 Sunday
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it would be nice if copy editors got past the 1980s layout -- the large graphics on the front page with wrapped text. it doesn't make the story more inviting. it softens the impact.
ReplyDeleteYou mean page designers or graphic artists. Copy editors edit copy and write headlines and cutlines. I know a lot of papers try to combine those functions, which is one of the things wrong with this business, but, hey, it saves money.
ReplyDeleteThe skill sets for copy editing and for page design are very different, and few people possess both skill sets.
Yeah, it's a shame the News Journal has forced out a considerable chunk of their newsroom, intimidated reporters, and shown an overall lack of competent management for the past two years. The staff there is miserable. Upper management fiddles while the building around them crumbles.
ReplyDeleteThey have much bigger problems than copy editing and design. Who can make a great paper when no one's left?
Intimidation? Here? Never!
ReplyDeleteWe locals refer to the paper as the "mullet wrapper". For those outside the area, mullet is a type of fish.
ReplyDeletehey, it's a haircut too!
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