The Misplaced Assumption
That young people are less interested in the news than they used to be. It's a point of view that confuses a declining interest in newspapers with a declining interest in what's going on in the world. But just as comic strips, sports scores and celebrity gossip once coaxed previous generations of teens and 20-somethings to pick up daily broadsheets, newspaper companies today need to make their Web sites more appealing to the young by tempting them with their contemporary equivalents, such as popular music and movie blogs and user-generated video footage from local high school sporting events.
Balzar leaving the newspaper game
John Balzar, one of the last ties to the L.A. Times' run as an exemplar of the literary newspaper journalism form, has given his notice and will move to Washington to work for the Humane Society. His farewell email, posted below the fold, hints that the internal turmoil rocking the Times (and papers generally) pushed him to seek a new life.
Put Oprah On Page One Every Day
What can newspaper editors to do beef up the front pages of their print products and reach out to defecting reader groups in 2007? To find the answer I turned on my television, looked at the magazine rack at the grocery checkout, and browsed a bookstore.The answer is Oprah Winfrey. The best way to reach out and grab new readers is to put Oprah on page one every day.
We're sorry about the late newspaper
Delivery of The Denver Post will continue throughout the day as there is limited access into many neighorhoods in the Front Range.
If you do not receive delivery today your carrier will make delivery as soon as it is possible.
Publisher of Ex's City Star lasts a month
John Gollin, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner's new City Star, has resigned a month after the new free daily started.
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