Fear and loathing at The Plain Dealer
This journalism, which can be read as tearful laments, is also powerful in that it highlights the increasingly anomalous position of the Newhouse-owned chain.
In an email this morning, Grzegorek says that while the post didn’t get much attention outside Cleveland, “it’s done bonkers traffic for our site and has been really well-received here in town.”
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The decrease in professional, trained journalists, with a set of ethical and professional standards should trouble us all. Additionally, with professionalism comes objectivity, and not just anger.
#1 Posted by Reggie Greene / The Logistician, CJR on Wed 12 Dec 2012 at 03:41 PM
Every story about papers being dismembered by Advance has the same plaintive overtones that maybe it can be stopped. It is as inevitable as the tides. Advance will be out of newsgathering within the next decade, in favor of a model in which the company will sell advertising to be matched to targeted audiences on social networking sites. As the Net melds with TV, the strategy benefits Advance's broader holdings. Look into the investments Advance is making in small startup companies specializing in innovations in doing just that. It gets rid of the expense of newsgathering. Who loses? Every city and community that has lost its major news source as a result.
#2 Posted by Jim , CJR on Fri 4 Jan 2013 at 11:12 AM
I interviewed with Newhouse's Alabama operation and they chuckled when I told them I would need a raise and money to relocate. Twenty years of doing everything in the newsroom didn't count for anything with them. Thank God Scripps called me with a much better offer. I hope the reporters and editors in NO and Cleveland get similar opportunities.
#3 Posted by Mike Eads, CJR on Thu 10 Jan 2013 at 08:49 PM