This change in newspaper page production at Tribune’s Virginia paper does not bode well for our buddies who remain employed on the Courant layout desk.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Instead of sending out individual building blocks that are assembled at the local site, we’re essentially going to build the framework into which they will fit local modules,” said Chicago Tribune Editor Gerould Kern, who has led the centralization efforts. The Daily Press, Kern said, asked for the latest “iteration on this model” to maintain local reporting yet lower costs.
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Isn’t that already happening? These blocks and modules have been arriving at Broad Street in volume for some time — even though they don’t use the same type face or headline caps style.
(http://denishorgan.com/2009/11/18/an-ill-wind-mooning-the-ag/)
They are all through the paper already.
A veryvery modestminor good thing about letting Chicago decide what Connecticut will read is that it likely keeps alive the news hole for any national and international news at all while the hyper-local approach of the TV types misunderstands the local mindset that says: What’s local is my town; you’re town is Djibuoti.
Not exactly. It’s a more comprehensive take-over. See this.