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 […]
If I had written this post 20 years ago, it would have looked a lot different.
One editor once told me back then when he wanted to see how badly written and how parochial another newspaper was, he’d skip the front page, and go directly to the sports pages.
I agreed. I can remember stories like “The […]
I’m a funny guy.
My sometimes-dry, sometimes-warped sense of humor has lit up the newsrooms where I’ve worked.
But not as a managing editor.
You’ll find out — as I did — humor is lot different coming out of your mouth as a reporter than out your mouth when you’re the boss.
As a boss, you’ll find that your […]
Someone who reads this blog — about 33 percent of the readership — pointed out that I had talked about W. Edwards Deming, the American prophet of management without honor in his own country, but left out a few things.
I said that Deming had many things to offer to small-town editors and offered a few […]
