Our press boss wins national acclaim
I’m delighted to announce that the press and packaging manager for the Mid-Valley Newspapers — which includes the Gazette-Times — has earned accolades from Editor & Publisher magazine. Larry Thomas was picked by the magazine as one of three national “Production All-Stars” to be featured in its September issue. A photo of Larry appears on...
Newspapers and communities: A first draft
Here’s an early draft of a column that should appear in Monday’s Gazette-Times. I’ve been working on a speech I’m scheduled to give next month on this topic: “The Future of Print Media.” Like just about everyone who works at newspapers, I get that request a lot these days. Typically, I give some kind of...
Thinking about ‘Choose Local’
Here’s an interesting blog from a Corvallis writer about the G-T’s “Choose Local!” campaign. It’s true, of course, as April writes, that the G-T is owned by Lee Enterprises, a publicly traded company that’s based in Davenport, Iowa; the G-T has been a Lee newspaper since 1969. But it doesn’t follow that the G-T has...
