The Star Press at a glance:
- President and Publisher: Juli Metzger
- Executive Editor: Gene Williams
- Founded: 1899
- Joined Gannett: 2000
- Employees: 169
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" The paper's front-page design and its photography are always impressive: Editors often encourage designers to go big with art."
ReplyDeleteThe one comment I hear most often from people that dont subscribe to a paper is that theres never anything in it. If we look at your example here we have about six column inches of actual information floating in a sea of useless fluff. With the ever shrinking page size and news hole perhaps it would be better if the so called journalists could pull some content off the wire and fill the page with some actual NEWS.
Exactly, above poster! I immediately noticed a lack of newscopy on this newspaper's front page. Three stories and a lot of filler. Time to get out of the layout style of the 80s and 90s.
ReplyDeleteI don't work for Muncie, but I find it truly odd that you guys are ripping on one of the cleanest-designed Gannett print editions. God-forbid they limit how many stories, graphs, and meaningless mugshots they cram on the front page, allowing visual elements to draw readers into their product, particularly above the fold.... gasp... the gaul of these people trying to keep their readership engaged with a nice looking presentation of that day's news... yes... clearly a thing of the 80s and 90s...
ReplyDeleteAnd we wonder why readers are switching to other information sources. With news folks like 10:48 our products will NEVER evolve. He and his friends just want us to put out the same old product that has been borning readers for the last five years. Heaven forbid a news team would embrace a new more captivating approach. No lets stay with the old way and watch our dailies disappear. Come on Kool Aid kid, get it together.
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