Friday, April 03, 2009

Live at N.Y. scene: Gannett's Press & Sun-Bulletin

[Recent screenshot from Press & Sun-Bulletin]

The central New York newspaper also is streaming live video of the shooting via Gannett's Mogulus webcast platform. Authorities say 14 are dead, likely including the shooter.

The daily at a glance:
  • Publisher: Sherman Bodner (since 2006)
  • Executive Editor: Calvin Stovall (since 2005)
  • Founded: 1904
  • Joined: The Binghamton Press, 1943; The Sun-Bulletin, 1971.
  • Circulation: 46,727 daily, down 6.4%; 58,942 Sunday, down 5.2%, according to Deutsche Bank research.
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18 comments:

  1. So........ all this begs the question......

    How many people have been laid of at this newspaper? And how badly does corp now wish they had them back working right now???

    It proves ... news - sometime VERY BIG news - can happen anytime, and anywhere.

    Content matters. Too bad Gannett doesn;t understand that

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  3. Could you get the name of the paper right in the headline?

    Thanks.

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  4. I hope this great coverage means none of us in Binghamton are getting layoffs next week.

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  6. Binghamton asked Poughkeepsie to "lend" staffers to help cover the big news happening Friday. Another perfect example of how the all-knowing bean-counters at corporate have hurt this industry -- their decision to gut Binghamton has left the local organization handicapped and unable to cover a big story with what's left of their newsroom.

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  7. 10:18 writes

    The final phase of those changes focuses on the dailies and includes the consolidation of Binghamton, Elmira and Ithaca into one newspaper with three distinctly different local websites.


    Watch out Gannett Central Wisconsin Papers..you're in line for this too!!

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  8. The Journal News, which covers Westchester, Putam and Rockland counties, NY, and now publishes the Poughkeepsie Journal - located about 70 miles north of TJN - sent people to help Binghamton out. See that guy doing the Mogulus in the screen cap? Matt Richter, a webcaster from TJN. He and a couple of reporters were dispatched to the scene. How down is Binghamton that they're shipping reporters from three hours south to help out? Weren't any hands from Elmira and Ithaca available? Before you know it, we'll be consolidating Binghamton, Ithaca and Elmira w/TJN and PoJo. Sadly, this shooting is going to be used by The Powers That Be to justify further consolidation. Freakin' scary.
    Send Jim some money people.

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  9. At the end of P3 '09, Binghamton FTEs were at 37. Compared to the end of P4 '07, when it was 57.

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  10. If 10:18 PM's memo is true, that means 2 Gannett papers - including the company's first, in Elmira - will cease to exist.

    Poof. Gone. Bye-bye.

    Jim, I'd say this merits its own post on your blog.

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  11. Wisconsin papers next??? Hope not! Roaming all over creation in winter won't be any fun!

    But it is a sure thing for those hapless Ohio papers! They will soon be combined - just watch...

    Especially the ones in Newark, Chillicothe and Lancaster. All centralized in Newark by late summer.... just watch.

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  12. 10:43 pm: Thank you for pointing out what might be a confusing headline. I know, of course, that N.Y. is not part of the newspaper's flag. Binghamton, as you can well understand, is a too-long word for many headline counts.

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  13. Um, it's the PRESS & Sun-Bulletin, not the BINGHAMTON Sun-Bulletin. Your headline rule is retarded.

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  14. Isn't Elmira the first Gannett paper? How sad.

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  15. Jim wrote: "I know, of course, that N.Y. is not part of the newspaper's flag. Binghamton, as you can well understand, is a too-long word for many headline counts."

    1. The paper is the Press & Sun-Bulletin (at least this week). Even "Press" would have been more acceptable than "Sun-Bulletin."

    2. You're on the Internet now. No such thing as "headline counts" online.

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  16. Westchester can't even cover news when it breaks in their own backyard, what good can they do covering something three hours away.

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  17. Thanks for changing the headline, Jim.

    On today of all days, as the Press & Sun-Bulletin is near its final days, it's important to get the name of the place correct.

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  18. To those who protest the varying names...locals also still call it the Binghamton Press. Obviously, there's derogatory names too, but no need to share those here.

    Though, merge three papers into one and the later names will grow.

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