In the pipeline to replace Dave Hunke as chief of the Detroit Media Partnership, after he got named USA Today publisher today.
1. Susie Ellwood, executive vice president and general manager.
2. Paul Anger, editor of the Detroit Free Press, and the top news executive on the paper's recent Pulitzer Prizewinning mayoral investigation.
Now, it's your turn: What are you hearing? Please post your replies in the comments section, below. To e-mail confidentially, write gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green rail, upper right.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Seems like it's her's to lose, unless she's really following through on reported plans to move to Phoenix.
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ReplyDeleteNo way it's Silverman.
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ReplyDeleteCan't deny the message, shoot the messenger?
ReplyDeleteSeems like it is popular lately.
Why not give it to Anger? He had experience as publisher of Miami's Broward County edition.
ReplyDeleteAnger? Oh great...he's said openly that he "doesn't care" about the Detroit News. As publisher he'd also be overseeing the Partnership. He's a Freep homer with no big vision. Please, no...
ReplyDeleteThe News sucks. In print and online.
ReplyDeleteIt won't be Anger. They need someone with real business skill to navigate that very tough business environment. And Singleton, the owner of the News, won't put up with a Free Press homer in that position. Gannett does not want to tick off Singleton, who has many business relationships with the company.
ReplyDeleteAlso: Hey, 9:38 a.m., the News gets more hits on its Web site on a regular basis. And, by all accounts, it's outselling the Free Press on the newsstands in the new delivery set-up. You also might be interested in this item in the alternative Detroit Metro Times:
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The new McFreep — less filling, more filler.
Aside from being an obvious waste of precious space (our Freep this Tuesday clocked in at a whopping 28 pages!) the new approach sacrifices the one advantage newspapers have going for them: depth.
At best what you have is the same reporter writing two self-contained, overlapping stories rather than one. Throw in two different headlines and additional art for the multiple pages displaying the stories, and what you get is maximum repetition instead of the longer, more detailed pieces we used to see. Here's a new motto: Instant déjà vu guaranteed in every issue.
We're told by someone who actually knows what they're talking about that the reason for this is many readers don't bother making the "jump" when a story that begins on the front page carries over to the inside, or continues from, say, Page 3 to a page deeper in the paper. That may be. All we can say is that the double-dip approach leaves us feeling more and more short-changed every time we plunk down those two quarters.
How hard is it to run a paper that only delivers to homes 3 days a week..??? just sayin...hey I got an idea...How bout SCJ?? she can do it "virtually" from THE Lake in Tahoe....just send a few buzz words a day to keep them on their toes and an occasional email about being strategic... If she can't do it then perhaps somebody from reno or AZ...
ReplyDeleteWell that guess sure took a lot of brain work. A no-brainer IMO.
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