Saturday, May 17, 2008
N.J. quiz: Find the holes in this GCI press release
Pretend you're an editor, then imagine this Gannett release is a story turned in by one of your reporters. What do you see missing? (Note: Those getting a failing grade are sentenced to flackdom.)
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Why? And while I'm at it, why, oh, why did they write such an empty press release? Who is Skip replacing? Where did this person go? When will they tell us? What are they hiding?
ReplyDeleteI'm not in news, and my HS J class is years behind me. If it's not an Exorcist-like voice saying "Suckerrrr!", I'm gonna need another hint.
ReplyDeleteGannett never used to promote top management at the same location. The advancement track was always promotion to a smaller paper, same job at a larger paper, promotion to a smaller paper, etc. In the past year or so, I've seen several same-site promotions to director/VP/publisher. What's the deal with that?
It reminds me of the "Gannetteteer" newsletter section on all the executive promotions througout the company. Always had to ask myself 'what happened to the guy that was in THAT job?'I guess some folks get the person non grata treatment. Sometimes for very good reasons.
ReplyDeleteWho cares. Ghandi is gone, Hidlay is in, from what I hear people at both papers are happier. Who gives a crap where Ghandi is.
ReplyDeleteAnother instance of double standards was that the announcement of Hidlay becoming publisher ran on the front page of HNT.
ReplyDeleteThe story about the buyouts were buried at the bottom of the business page -- on Saturday.