editor on the verge

Happy holidays to all my readers, site visitors and colleagues. For those of you who were visited by Santa last night, I hope you got everything you wanted. As for all my Jewish colleagues, I hope you at least are getting holiday pay.

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Although most newspaper companies appear set on a path that now includes significant emphasis on developing online products, just how they accomplish that varies from company to company. While some newspapers are seeking out partnerships, albeit even bad ones, others are going at it alone, building their staffs and charting their own courses.
All these companies [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I would never buy something from a store whose sign was falling off, that had graffiti scrawled on its walls, a window that can barely be seen through and a door that was dented — not to mention products that weren’t always current or were frequently sold out.
Yet everyday, [...]

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Dear Santa -
As folks whose lives are shaped by deadlines, we are sorry we are writing to you so close to yours. We know that, by now, you have received most of your requests, but Santa our newsroom has been really, really busy — producing evergreen copy and the pages that will fill our holiday [...]

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I never thought that I would see my name or this blog mentioned in a story along with David Byrne and Brian Eno, but thanks to the Post Standard (Syracuse, NY), I have. And you know, it looks pretty good.

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