Time is your enemy. Don’t make it everyone else’s enemy
As an editor, you’ll never have enough of it and the time pressure can be daunting at times, especially a half-hour before press time.
As I’ve mentioned, don’t hesitate to spend some of your publisher’s money if something helps you to cut corners on beating the clock.
Because […]
In my last post, I discussed the power of “don’t mess with my TV” and how it might affect the Digital TV revolution of 2008 — and like the French revolutionaries of more than 200 years ago, the present-day revolutionaries may find themselves being guillotined by even more radical revolutionaries.
But the power of “don’t mess […]
A few years back, I always ran a feature offered by Associated Press. I don’t remember the name of it but each week, some reading expert would adapt an AP story into a short story geared to kids. The story would generally be about something popular with kids such as dinosaur discoveries, planets or snakes […]
No doubt, you hear and read a great deal of twaddle about “managing” your newsroom.
Here are some of my Commandments for running a newsroom:
• Get to know your staff.
As one wise editor told me: “All your reporters lie to you at one time or another.
“You have to know when and why they lie […]
I’ve been reflecting on the ruckus concerning the products made in China being recalled for a wide variety of hazards or shoddy production.
I’ve always been surprised at how few newspapers include stories about product recalls. I always did.
For publications that boast of of their “local, community connections,” the papers could perform a useful community service […]
