Editor & Publisher 2003-01-20: Vol 136 Iss 3

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I Newspaper Web sites get into the habit j AL BOULDERe HISTORY? Colorado,” Oct. 30,1999]. When Miller
i of asking users (nicely) to register. .10 | took over, he slashed the editorial staff,
ucia Moses’ “Young readers antagonized the editor, and lectured
i E&P NEWS lift Boulder” [Jan. 13, p. 7] suggests reporters about being “too adversarial”
that the Colorado Daily's success in toward university officials they covered. He
I Hedging bets Don’t put it all |
appealing to a young demographic is due has since replaced experienced reporters
on Kmart — or any one horse .3
to some ingenious formula invented by with recent j-school graduates and interns.
1 Key point Domestic-partner Publisher Randy Miller, who bought the Finally, Moses’ article fails to point out
[ bennies an issue for AP and Guild . .4 newspaper two years ago. that the newspaper is in a unique market
I Take THAT Copley Press Inc. In fact, the Daily thrived for decades as position that the Chicago Reds don’t enjoy:
i pays retail for newsprint.5 an employee-owned and -run newspaper the Daily is, in effect, the campus paper for
I before Miller bought it at a fire-sale price, the University of Colorado. While it is
Watch what you write
I Saudis give reporters Rolexes.6 following a bankruptcy precipitated by a independent of the university, it has a
major embezzlement and virtual monopoly on a
Beachfront properties
a series of poor manage¬ captive college audience
i Riches on Florida’s Treasure Coast . .7 LETTERS
ment decisions. Miller that continues to be its
credits himself for having E&P vDclcomes letters. Send core readership and a
! DEPARTMENTS boosted ad linage and them xna e-mail to letters®, highly attractive
eliminated circulation editorandpublisher.com, via advertising target.
NEWSPEOPLE Commercial Appeal outside Boulder County, facsimile to [phone], TERJE LANGELAND
names John Wilcox first publisher . .8 but he’s comparing the or via snail-mail to “Letters,” STAFF REPORTER
EDITORIAL Bakersfield Californian linage to a time when the Editor & Publisher, 770 Colorado Springs
I doesn’t back away from heat.9 newspaper was in the Broadway, New York, NY Independent
tank, and the circulation 10003. Please include name, Langeland was a reporter
TECHNOLOGY Advance Publications’ outside Boulder had been title, organizational affilia¬ at the Colorado Daily
I Michigan plants get noticed.24 1 a short-lived experiment tion, location, and e-mail from 1998 to 2001.
launched by an interim address. Letters may be edited
^ SYNDICATES Cartoonists find
themselves drawing to the right .. .25 publisher. Prior to the for all the usual reasons. Corrf.ctidn.s
financial difficulties, the In “Don't let the door...,”
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; " * Eric Alterman: Conservatives paper had for decades successfully cultivat¬ Jan. 6, p. 10, E&P inaccurately gave
j give “PC” a whole new meaning .. .26 ed the same, local, 18-to-35-year-old audi¬ the inauguration date for Minnesota
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ence that Miller boasts of having captured. Gov. Tim Pawlenty. In fact, he was
Classified .13 I recoil most, however, at Miller’s claims sworn in Jan. 6.
that his formula includes an emphasis on
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“news” and that the paper’s previous focus In “Pointing the way to better times in
was limited to covering “local activism.” In 2003,” Jan. 6, p. 14, E&P incorrectly
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the years leading up to the bankruptcy, the described the results of the 2002 Newsroom
THIS WEEK ON THE WEB Daily's editorial staff racked up numerous Employment Census carried out by the
, Exclusively on editorandpublisher.com ... state and national journalism awards for American Society of Nenspaper Editors.
; Newspapers run nine of the top 20 news Web our investigative coverage of a wide array In fact,ASNE reported the percentage of
sites in the United States, according to the latest of topics. One of the staff s investigations minority journalists working at daily
audience stats from Nielsen/ZNetRatings. The top was even featured in E&P [“Buffaloed in newspapers rose, to 12.07% from 11.64%.
paper on the list was The New York Times, No. 6,
followed by Gannett Co. Inc.'s sites, No. 7. See the 50 YEARS AGO--
complete list under Jan. 15 on our “Headlines"
index page. ...The Toronto Star has launched the newspaperd< M» FROM EDITOR & PUBLISHER
j Brand New Planet, a new weekly for “tweenagers." |
Read about the paper and its first advertisers. j JAN. 17, 19.53: Eisenhower headquarters. The shareholders of the newly creeled
including the Watt Disney Co. and an acne- I Development of a technique that New York Times' James B. Reston Cincinnati Enquirer Inc. by
medicine manufacturer, also Jan. 15.... Columnist i substitutes publishers for reporters reported at the New York State Publisher Roger H. Ferger shows
I Charles Bowen visits an infectious-disease Web in contact with the incoming Publishers Association convention. the community/employee-owned
site that chronicles the latest epidemics and offers ' Republican administration in newspaper “on the upswing in
background for biological-warfare coverage. i Washington is apparent at The first financial report to the every major department.”
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t a “Diversity
Summit’’ con¬
vened at the Freedom
Forum's NashviHe,
year may be somewhat less dramatic than in Sand- Tenn., center last
Kmart’s latest round of store closings
point. The retailer, which spent $104 million in news¬ week, the American
has newspaper executives refocusing papers in the first 11 months of2002 and said last fall Society of Newspaper
it planned to boost its use of the medium, represents Editors (ASNE)
on small and midsize retail accounts
less than 2% of ad revenue to most public newspaper decided to explore
D chains, according to Kevin Gruneich, an analyst for several approaches to
BY LUCIA MOSES Bear, Steams & C!o. increasing the number
avid Keyes was just about to turn in his Industry observers believe that the business still has of minority journalists.
2003 annual budget last week for the Bonner a considerable way to go in weaning itself away from Among them is
County Daily Bee, a 4,701-daily-circulation relying too much on too few advertisers. Scott Stines, creating a “leadership
newspaper in Sandpoint, Idaho, when his secretary president of the mass2one marketing consultancy institute” to train
slipped him a message that made him blanch: Sand- based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wrote recently that as mkMevei and top
point’s Kmart was among the 326 stores chosen to much as 95% of a newspaper’s retail ad revenue editors in “cultural
close as part of the retailer’s plan to exit bankruptcy. comes from 5% of its accounts. And Gene Grant, a competence,” and -
Since it opened in 1990, the Sandpoint store has partner in Insight Edge, a Sacramento, Calif-based asking the Readership
come to be the Daily Bee’s fifth- consulting firm, said short-term Institute to expand
largest advertiser, accounting ^ budget and corporate pressures its Impact study of
for about 8% of the Hagadone li* on managers can undermine newsroom corporate
Corp. paper’s ad revenue. But efforts to broaden a paper’s culture to include
Publisher Keyes figured its days advertiser base. diversity issues.
were numbered when a Wal- Motivated by retail-store “At the top, every
Mart store opened across the closings, mergers, or simply the editor agrees with the
road in 1995. urge to increase revenue, papers goal of diversity, but
Keyes had drawn up plans to have intensified efforts to widen it’s been very, very
offer incentives to bring more their advertising bases by woo¬ difficult for them to
local retailers into the paper. ing small and midsize business¬ accomplish diversity,”
Now, he won’t waste any time es. While more feet on the street said ASNE President
putting them into motion. “No- is a common theme, strategies Diane McFarlin, pub¬
thing’s secure,” he said. “I guess have varied across the industry. lisher of the Sarasota
it’s a wake-up call to not keep A sampling: (Fla.) HeraU-Tribune.
all your eggs in one basket.” 1 ^ • In the past few years, “K’s more than Just a
Industrywide, the impact of \ Pulitzer Inc. has added sales top editor getting
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Association of tisers at its 12 community dailies, said Mark G. Con¬ are consistent with the company’s core value of
Hispanic Journalists treras, a company senior vice president. The number raising revenue, but the ad recession was a “huge mo¬
(NAHJ) that aims to of active accounts grew about 10% and total ad tivator,” said Bob Weil, vice president of operations.
recruit Hispanic revenue rose about 3% through November, he said. An example of the payoff: a new commission-only
journalists to news¬ • Lee Enterprises Inc.’s “blitz” teams — groups of sales team at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis last
papers in small top salespeople who go into a market to work with lo¬ year generated more than $10 million in new revenue,
Southern and Plains cal sales reps to target infrequent advertisers — mostly from small and midsize accounts, he said.
cities that have brought in more than 20,000 new advertisers during Smaller accounts may be less profitable than larger
experienced rapid the 2001 fiscal year and rang up $11.7 million in ones, but Contreras said the profit is there; Pulitzer’s
increases in Latino revenue for the 2002 fiscal year, which ended Sept. investment in building small-business revenue in
populations. William 30. As a result of the focus on contracts designed to Year One was returned three times in Year Two. “It’s
Dean Singleton, CEO foster long-term relationships, ad reps sold or upsold a lot of elbow grease for less money than you’d get
of MediaNews Group new contracts to 13,.500 clients in the latest fiscal year. with one major advertiser,” he said. “But in the
Inc. and Mike Phillips, • The McClatchy Co. has stepped up efforts to absence of majors continuing to grow in number ...
director of editorial increase its offerings to all advertisers of all sizes. They it’s a strategy that makes sense for us.” 11
development for the
E.W. Scripps Co.,
volunteered news¬ Domestic-partner benefits a key point
papers in their chains AP, Guild have (contract) issues
as laboratories for the
project, McFarlin said.
- MARK FITZGERALD
CAPITAUSMAT A
BY JOE STRUPP continued denial of
AU-WEEKIIES ssociated domestic-partner
S Press editorial benefits gives workers
tarting new employees, who another reason to leave.
papers has been have been working He cited the recent
cited as one legal without a contract since departure of a photo edi¬
remedy to the contro¬ Nov. 30, have used a tor who took another job
versial closing of two variety of protest tools — because she couldn’t get
alternative weeklies. from a byline strike to benefits for her partner.
But some are already informational picketing The key-chain protest
moving to fill the void — to show their anger came between a Jan. 10
left by the demise of over the lack of progress byline strike and
the New Times Los as talks continue. informational picketing
Angeles and Cleveland Although The News¬ at AP’s New York
Free Times. Silver Lake paper Guild/CWA Local headquarters Thursday.
Press, a 30,000- 31222, representing The most recent
distribution biweekly about 1,700 U.S.-based bargaining session was
in eastern L.A., will AP newsroom workers, conducted Wednesday.
change its name to reports it is moving The latest manage¬
Los Angeles Alternative closer to an agreement Associated Press employees Margie Jacobs and Jerome ment proposal is a two-
Press and expand dis¬ on wage increases, union Minerva remind the co-op that it's money that matters. year contract with a
tribution next month, leaders said health- panies have had [do¬ the cooperative’s com¬ 2.7% pay hike the first
while in Cleveland benefit rate hikes and mestic partners] bene¬ mitment to diversity’ year and a 3% raise the
former Free Times AP's refusal to extend fits in place for a while.” and w'ere given to many second year, according
staffers started a new benefits to domestic AP spokesman Jack employees in recent to Winton. Union lead¬
alternative monthly. partners are blocking a Stokes declined to com¬ weeks. More than 300 ers are asking for a 5%
Urban Dialect. new contract. ment on any specific AP workers, according raise in each of the two
Federal investigators “They have told us elements of the contract to Winton, have sent the years. Just two weeks
reportedly are wrap¬ ‘No,’ and they have never talks, releasing a state¬ key chains back in ago, AP had offered only
ping up their antitrust explained why,” local ment that said, “We’re protest. “It came sponta¬ a 1.9% annual pay
probe into the alt- President Tony Winton confident that the w’age neously from the grass¬ increase, with the union
weekly closings by said about the domestic- issues and all other roots,” Winton said. seeking an 8% salaiy
Village Voice Media partner issue. “We hav'e issues will be resolved.” Ron Kampeas, a hike each year. “I am
and NT Media. The gotten no response from Tbe domestic-partner Washington-based AP optimistic w'e will get an
case is bound to be them at all, and that is flap sparked an unusual staff writer and the agreement,” Winton
the talk of the Asso- veiy fhistrating. Most of protest involving AP key local’s human-rights said. “I see the glass as
the major media com¬ chains that svTnbolize coordinator, said the half-full.” 11
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Paper money ciatkxi of Alternative
THE NEWS
Newsweeklies’ annual
AAN \Mest conference
on the table next nxMith, which
features a new session
this year; “How to
Start an Alternative
Copley pays full price for newsprint Paper.” AAN Executive
Director Richard
Karpel said the timing
BY JIM ROSENBERG was coincidental.
HY PAY LESS WHEN AN EXTRA $15 BUYS - LUCIA MOSES
the same ton of paper?
“There is concern on our part about the SUNSHINE
long-term availability of newsprint,” said The San
Diego Union-Tribune's newsprint manager, Diane SUNDAY
Jordan, as she explained last month’s letter from primarv' focus, she said, also denving any effort to pull L
parent company Copley Press Inc. to suppliers. In it. the industry into a stable relationship with suppliers. ast year — when
Chief Operating Officer Charles F. Patrick offered to “Groups with shareholders aren’t as likely to jump on Florida legislators
pay the full $50 a metric ton of the last price hike. the bandwagon,” she said. Copley is a privately held proposed more than
Most similarly large buyers pay only $35. group of nine dailies and eight weeklies. Its annual 100 bills to gut large
“It’s unheard of,” said analyst and former Times newsprint consumption, according to figures in the parts of the state’s
Mirror Co. newsprint buyer Bernard Bottomley. forthcoming 2003 Editor ^ Publisher Year Book, strongest-in-the-nation
But, to Jordan, “it just makes good business sense” would cost almost $1.8 million more at the full $50. open public-records
to try to even out pricing peaks and valleys. While Does the offer ensure full supply if demand sharply and -meetings laws —
seeking a secure long-term supply, “that wasn’t our increases after a period of capacity contraction? the Florida Society of
“That might give us more credit for intelligence and Newspaper Editors
Western powers foresight than we have,” said Harold W. Fuson Jr., (FSNE) asked every
In search oi‘Empire' Copley’s vice president and chief legal officer. Still, he paper in the state to
thinks papers should care about future nari'owing of run an editorial about
the supply channel. open government on
Capacity loss resulting from financial stress on the same Sunday in
BY JOE STRUPP papermakers doesn’t help any publisher, said Fuson, March.
HE Los Angeles Times plans to launch who prefers incremental price hikes over time to “a “Sunshine Sunday” .
its fifth regional edition, which will focus Draconian increase [that] hits us just as business was so successful in
on the fast-growing Riverside and San begins to rebound,” he said. But like the Union- turning back the politi¬
Bernardino counties of the Inland Empire. The Tribune’s Jordan, he professed little expectation of cal tide toward open¬
new edition adds another newspaper element to being able to influence the industry in terms of ness— Florida voters
the already competitive area, which has long been commercial beharior that will help make prices pre¬ strengthened the Sun-
home to The Press-Enterprise of Riverside and the dictable and supplies secure, “All we’re doing as a,.. shine-in-Govemment
San Bernardino County Sun. “It’s a huge market, buyer is expressing our concern. We’re not doing this Act with a constitu¬
and parts of it have very strong affinities to Los in the hope of setting off some bombshell,” he said. tional amendment —
Angeles,” John Puemer, Times CEO, publisher, “If this were Gannett or Knight Bidder or Tribune that FSNE is doing it
and president, said in a statement to EiiiP. “I that did this, it would have a whole different impact,” again March 16. This
think it could represent an important source of added Bottomley. year’s Sunshine Sun¬
future, consistent, regular circulation growth.” Summarizing points of the letter in “The Reel Time day will be coordinat¬
The edition will be launched some time in late Report” newsletter, analyst Verle Sutton wTote that ed by Tim Franklin,
April or early May, executives said. Times spokes¬ publishers “pushed ... producers too far,” and if they editor of the Orlando
woman Martha Goldstein declined to say how keep all the pressure the\' can on price, producers will Sentinel, and Barbara
much the paper is expected to spend on the new be unable “to meet the supply needs” and prices will Petersen, president of
venture. Currently, the newspaper operates a then go up. “All the majors must accept Cople>’’s lead the First Amendment
Riverside bureau with two news staffers. Sources if real change is to occur,” he wrote. Foundation.
said at least six reporters likely will occupy the site So if Copley is “not leading a crusade” or insuring its - MARK FITZGERALD
for the new edition. “The Times is recognizing paper supply, just what does putting its monev’ where
that it has been extremely deficient and negligent its mouth is accomplish? Bottomley couldn’t even MEII-EDITUR
in the Inland Empire,” Sun Publisher Robert hazard a guess. “All they’ve done is express a senti¬
Gray said of the Times’ decision to expand. “I ment; they haven’t put anything in place to capture” INSYNUICAIIUN
believe it wiU be extremely costly for them to make a pricing commitment. WTien demand rises, he D
any headway with how entrenched the Sun is here said, price will rise abruptly. As for supply concerns, avid Ignatius,
= 11 and The Press-Enterprise is in Riverside.” II Bottomley asked: “Who can remember when a former executive
publisher ran out of paper?” 11
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editor of the Interna¬
MediaWatch 2003
tional Herald Tribune,
is being syndicated by
the Washington Post
Writers Group.
Ignatius covers inter¬
national affairs in his
s^iweekly column,
Brother,
which began in The can you spare
Washington Post in the time?
1999 and was T
originally distributed BY ALLAN WOLPER watches, costing as much as $20,000,
by the Los Angeles wo PROMINENT Arab journalists based in would have to be declared at customs-service
Times-Washington London have confirmed a New York Daily checkpoints. “It certainly is a problem for a i
Post News Service. News column alleging that Saudi Arabian reporter,” he joked. “You can’t sell them, and you
He continued the officials have given expensive watches, including can’t wear them.” Of course, he added, “Some jour¬
column on a weekly Rolexes, to Western reporters. nalists decline the watches, and some accept them.”
basis after joining the The Arab newsmen did not identify any of the Jihad al-Khazen, editor in chief of a joint news
IHT m 2000. reporters who might have accepted the gifts, and project ofAl-Hayat, an Arabic-language daily, and
The Post recently neither did Zev Chafets, the columnist who made the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., declared, “All
sold its interest in the the allegations on Dec. 4. journalists who go there, they all receive Swiss
Paris-based paper. And American journalists watches, Rolex watches.” In fact, he added in a tele¬
- DAVE ASTOR who were in the Middle phone interview from Beirut, “If they like you, some¬
East recently said that times they give you his-and-her watches. It’s been
no Saudi official offered going on since I was a child.... If you don’t take the
them anything. watches, they feel insulted. There is a saying in Ara¬
But Chafets insisted in bic that the presents of kings cannot be refused.”
T his column and in an inter¬ But it appears that the Saudis are being discreet
he new pubtisher view afterward that the about who gets their gifts. Newsweek’s Jonathan
of Maine alterna¬ watch-giving is a time- Alter, who just returned from Saudi Arabia, told
tive Casco Bay Weekly honored device to win that no one had offered him anything. And
said that while the favorable press coverage Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Ti'/nesman who
New York Daily News
Portland-based paper' for the Saudi government. watch-man Zev Chafets is the most visible of the Middle East correspon¬
used to be “controver¬ “Are [journalists] influ¬ dents, said through his Washington assistant that he
sial without a cause," enced by Saudi hospitality?” he asked in his column. knew nothing about the watch-giving.
he wants to make it a “Look at the coverage of the kingdom the last 10 Edward Cody, a journalist at The Washington Post
“positive force in the years and see which reporters failed to notice they who has covered the Middle East for 30 years, said
community.” Roy Allen were in a fascist theocracy and decide for yourself.” he believed that the serious gift-giving ended in the
founded the Endeavor However, the Saudi journalists interviewed by early 1970s. “When we first started covering Saudi
Foundation, which E^P don’t believe the gifts have any strings Arabia, it was a practice to accept a gift and give
bought the paper from attached to them. “It is a common thing,” said equal value in return,” Cody said.
Dodge and Lael Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor in chief of Al-Quds Chafets, however, told EitiP that he wrote his
Morgan after it closed Al-Arabi, an Arabic-language daily newspaper, in column because he knew the Saudis were still
in November and a telephone interview from London. “It is not con¬ handing out watches. Cody said that even if some
restarted it Wednes¬ sidered a bribe in the Middle East,” he explained. journalists do take the gifts, it shouldn’t reflect on
day. Allen said he “In the Arab world, it is a way of being generous.” the great majority of journalists who reject the
intends to keep the Atwan noted that expensive gifts can cause Saudi offerings. “I am sure some are given,” he said,
paper's membership headaches for Western journalists because Rolex “and some are accepted.” II
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PIpg Florida’s Treasure Coast
statement, 9ven the
new owner’s editorial
direction: “From what
I read, I presumed
they don't want to be
T a member.”
BY LUCIA MOSES separate reporting a TbeStu^_^^ I •j 'Prrsi^^- .Journal ~ - LUCIA MOSES
hree centuries staffs and flags, they $694 billiofl pbn
ago, Spanish have collapsed their DO NOT READ
galleons carrying news departments 1
gold and silver coins under group editors AllAOOIITIT
UBK:
shipwrecked off the 70 and increased stoiy t S
miles of South Florida sharing. “The goal heriff’s deputies
shoreline known today isn’t to make it all who committed
as the Treasure Coast. bland and all one,” said mass purchases of a
The name fits as far Mark Tomasik, group Boat 8>V0* *•*■2?* jUti Hn^« dr roU small newspaper’s
as the E.W. Scripps Co. executive editor, Election Day issue,
is concerned. With three “but there are some ii leaving few on sale for
papers whose combined issues that are just I the pubTic, violated
daily circulation is more common to the area.” the paper's Rrst
than 90,000, Scripps Learning as they go, Amendment rights, a
virtually owns the the papers occasionally federal appeals court
Treasure Coast, a fast¬ make flubs in story ruled Thursday. The
growing strip between sharing. Readers are will become profitable j 1 4th U.S. Circuit Court
the Orlando and West justified in squawking, this year and said he of Appeals in Rich¬
Palm Beach-Boca Raton Tomasik said. “We have plans to start more mond, Va., overturned
metropolitan statistical to get better at being weeklies — in Vero a knver court’s dis¬
areas. Scripps’Treasure able to swap stories out.” Beach, also Scripps missal of a complaint
Coast ad revenue grew The Tribune and News territory, as well as in broi^ by Kenneth C.
4.5% last year, which carried identical sports Palm Beach and Rossignol, publisher of
was essentially flat for sections one recent day. Brevard counties I St Mary’s Today in
the industry overall. That’s not supposed to over the next ^ southern Maryland.
Part of the credit goes happen, said Treasure few' years. Pierce consign¬ The appeals court
to the consolidation of Coast Sports Editor The weeklies have ment shop to a bigger called the 1998
the ad-sales staffs, which Mike Graha, adding, been a hit with small- space. Until Hometown incident “a scheme to
has reduced overlap “The goal obviously is business owners such as can provide advertisers silerKe disrespectful
of sales calls, said Bob to produce sections Janette Clark, who said with verified readership speech.”
Brunjes, Scripps Trea¬ that are specific to the ad she ran brought data, though, the group -TODD SHIELDS.
sure Coast Publishing the counties we serve.” in so much traffic that most likely will have
Co. vice president and If the papers are she had to move her Fort limited impact. 11 B0NE.0UTN0T
advertising director. perceived to be losing
Once-competing sales¬ their local touch, though,
‘St. Pete Times’ recasts
people now sell ads a new trio of weeklies J
for all three of its news¬ will be all too happy to oRn-the-money coverage ames M. Hale,
papers, creating a larger exploit it. Steven E. 75, former pub¬
platform with which to Erlanger founded eaders of Florida’s St. Petersburg lisher of The Kansas
pursue regional and Hometown News last Times found a new emphasis on City (Mo.) Star, died
national advertising. year, filling a hole creat¬ personal finance and local faces in the Jan. 12 in Denison,
While consolidation ed when the Tribune Co. paper’s redesigned business sections on Sunday Tnas.... John McDer¬
has made it easier for bought a group of South and Monday, starting Jan. 5. mott, 86, former polit¬
advertisers to buy into Florida w eeklies a few In replacing The Wall Street Journal Sunday ical editor at The
all three papers, editors years earlier and folded pages, the Times' new “Money” section includes Miami Herald, died
are challenged to make the ones that served the a “Kids & Money” column and interviews about Jan. 10 in Fort Laud¬
the most of the common Treasure Coast. local residents’ personal-finance strategies. erdale, Fla.... Robert
ownership while Erlanger claims a The Times switched its Monday business- Hunter, 93, a 50-year-
preserving the identities combined (and unaudit¬ section from a tabloid to a broadsheet format, plus employee of the
of The Tribune in Fort ed) weekly distribution and expanded its technology coverage. The Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Pierce, The Stuart News, of more than 80,000 in section’s name change to “Tampa Bay Business” News-Journal, died
and the Press Journal in the Fort Pierce, Port St. from “Business Times” reflects the paper’s Jan. 9 in Port
Vero Beach. Although Lucie, and Stuart areas. regional coverage. — Lvaia Moses Orar^, Fla. - 30 -
each paper kept He projected the group
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CALIFORNIA
Cynthia Schur to president and publisher of
Santa Maria-based Pulitzer Central Coast
Newspapers, which includes the Santa
Maria Times and The Lompoc Record,
from president and publisher of The
Garden Island in Lihue, Hawaii.
INDIANA
Jason Sethre to general manager of The La
Porte Herald-Argus from director of circula¬
tion ai The Daily Journal in Kankakee, Ill.
TENNESSEE
John P. Wilcox MASSACHUSETTS
Virginia BucKingham to deputy editorial page
editor at the Boston Herald. Buckingham,
John Wilcox, 52, has been named publisher
most recently executive director of the
of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Massachusetts Port Authority, succeeds
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