The other day I bumped into the father of a former newspaper intern.
The intern had been a keeper. She was smart, had the beginnings of the killer instinct that makes great reporters, and even though she was a high school student, was already a passable writer.
She represented the future of newspapering in America and she […]
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 […]
I don’t know if it’s still there but there used to be a large barn along Kansas state highway K-4, a wind-swept two-lane highway running east-west beside what was a Union Pacific main line between the two small towns of Hoisington and Claflin.
The barn was perched on what passes for a higher hill along the […]
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 […]
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 […]
