Remember the famous French poem of World War II D Day fame? “The violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor.”
The violins of autumn are a bit late, but of late, during this winter of discontent, they’ve playing pretty energetically.
No doubt you’ve heard them. On the radio, on the TV, and especially in […]
It’s the first of the year and it’s Progress time.
Most small-town editors and readers know that time — and as far as editors and reporters are concerned, not too fondly.
For those of you who don’t know; and I suspect there aren’t many, Progress — it’s called different things at different papers — is an attempt […]
Imagine if you will, an eager grocery store manager, newly promoted from stock clerk.
He’s diligent. She’s enthusiastic. He experiments and finds interesting merchandise that flies off the shelves. She motivates her staff to try imaginative and fulsome customer service that packs ‘em in.
Our young hero posts a 10-percent profit for the year. In an […]
I heard from someone who helps contribute information and ideas to this site.
A small-town paper he liked in a community he liked advertised for a new reporter — and at a salary that was semi-decent (for the newspaper business.
He regarded the paper as a nearly perfect situation for him and given his experience and writing […]
A couple of computer experts I respect very much collared me recently and painted a fantastic version of the future of American newspapers and how news gathering and news dissemination would be transformed by the Internet.
They noted that now, with a flick of few buttons, you can read nearly any newspaper […]
