Daily Archives: December 16, 2009

Ferraro A Moving Target

It would appear that John Ferraro, former Courant investigative editor and more recent editor at the Hartford Business Journal, has moved on to Patch.com as regional editor. Good luck with this, John. Tell us more, huh? (Turns out I’m late on this, as some readers observe.)

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Trying Another Move

You’ve got to hand it to Tribune. It is trying everything it can think of to keep from falling apart. This time it has Google as a partner in something called Fast Flip. The long-term prognosis for newspaper employees is not good, however, according to this report.  (An important point: newspapers have not recently seen [...]

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Alms For The Industry

I don’t what to think about these two little headlines: The Miami Herald is asking its readers for donations. This is an approach that even Tribune hasn’t tried. New Philadelphia paper produced by homeless people. (I hope none of them are former Courant employees.)  

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Kate The Academic

Kate Farrish reports on her Facebook page that she has been hired to teach an introductory media writing course at Quinnipiac University. So, speaking for all us media writers, I make the following request: Teach your students to get to the point within the first three paragraphs.  

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