Mike Reed Sets Goals for New Gannett

Editors are just tired of taking shit from one side or the other over something that was published on the edit page. That's what this boils down to, and relevancy is just a convenient excuse.

 

It’s a cost cutting move, pure and simple. The fact that opinion pages are less read or too hard to distinguish from news online is window dressing.

Opinion pages and content for them require a commitment of time and money. Gannett has neither of those things.

 

Numerous wire services provide opinion content that Gannett outlets already pay for.

Paginators spend just as much time laying out an op-ed page as they do a lifestyles page, probably much less.

It goes back to that Gannett suits don't wanna face the heat from half their readers — either for fear of losing readership or from the drudgery of answering emails and phone calls.

 

If the paper in my town is any indicator, the editorial pages are gone. There are no more op-eds, and they're only running letters to the editor three maybe four times a week

 

FTFY.

 

Meanwhile, at USA Today...

USA Today Deletes 23 Articles Following Investigation Into Alleged Fabrication By Reporter

 

We'll improve our processes once we toss aside a "breaking news reporter" (i.e. glorified intern or who we'd once call a rewrite guy) who was probably making $31k a year writing trending news stories on USA Today's website. I'm guessing she also had a daily quota to meet.

This is how you get Jayson Blairs in your newsrooms.

Edit: I say this not to shame her, but look at her story archive. It's pretty much what you'd expect from someone in her position.

https://www.usatoday.com/staff/4869305001/gabriela-miranda/

 

Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair, this person - it never ends and it's never good for how the public perceives the mainstream media.

 

They're hiring more of these positions at some of their bigger markets..I think Columbus for sure and maybe Akron

 

Probably not a bad idea. Many readers still don’t know the difference between a story and a column.

 

Do papers even endorse candidates these days? And do candidates come in to meet with the editorial boards that remain, in hopes of getting the paper's endorsement?

 

The future of opinion journalism is hyperlocal


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