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- Their Eyes Were Watching Nature
- Can We All Get Along?
- Another Paper Bites the Dust
- Advice for the Sentinel
- Falling Angel, Devil's Child
- Scooped!
- Open Your Wallet
- Copy Cat Design
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- The Party's Over
- Listen Up
- Get on Board
- Orlando's First Newspaper Casualty
- Tribune's Lalapalooza of a Loss
- Read All About It
- Passing the Smell Test
- Is El Sentinel Light Going Out?
- Dethroned
- Lift Every Voice
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And the People Said ...
I'd rather exercise than read a newspaper ~ model Kim Alexis
For some reason, (media moguls) assume people will want to buy more newspapers if they have less news in them and are less useful ~ Molly Ivins
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure ~ Arthur Baer
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column ~ Dave Barry
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed ~ Elbert Hubbard
Newspaper Jokes
Two newspaper reporters walk into a bar, and discover these bada-bing jokes. Send in your own favorites.
What's the difference between a managing editor and a sack of fertilizer? The sack.
Why is a headline like a Scud missile? Both are offensive and inaccurate.
What's the difference between a features editor and an onion? People cry when you cut an onion into pieces.
How do you know when there's a circulation consultant at the door? His hat says "Domino's."
If you threw a reporter and a photographer off a cliff at the same time, who would hit bottom first? Two answers: 1. The photographer, becausethe reporter would get lost on the way. 2. Who cares?
Some American newspapers have outsourced their customer service, copy editing and other functions to a company in Mumbay, India. The public face of the company is an Americanized Indian named Helen Waite. Journalists looking for jobs in American papers now must dial Helen and wait.
What's the difference between a managing editor and a sack of fertilizer? The sack.
Why is a headline like a Scud missile? Both are offensive and inaccurate.
What's the difference between a features editor and an onion? People cry when you cut an onion into pieces.
How do you know when there's a circulation consultant at the door? His hat says "Domino's."
If you threw a reporter and a photographer off a cliff at the same time, who would hit bottom first? Two answers: 1. The photographer, becausethe reporter would get lost on the way. 2. Who cares?
About Me
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- Maria Padilla
- Orlando, Florida
- I spent nearly 25 years in the newspaper business at five different newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County Register, the San Juan Star (Puerto Rico) and the Reno Gazette Journal. My last paper was the Orlando Sentinel. I am blogging about the Orlando Sentinel because attention must be paid to the decline of the Orlando area's only major source of daily news, and to the historical makeover of the newspaper industry in general. Keep your comments and tips coming. Reach me at maria_padilla@bellsouth.net.
Dearly Departed
• Carrie Alexander • Ashley Allen • Scott Andera • Mark Andrews • Melissa Angle • Elaine Aradillas • John Babinchak • Steve Barnes • Alex Beasley • Caralyn Bess • Marie Blom • Jay Boyar • Laura Brost • Matthew Hay Brown • Peter Brown • Bill Buchalter • Ron Bush • Jim Buynak • Mike Cabbage • Alicia Caldwell • Ramsey Campbell • Ken Clarke • Bobby Coker • William Couch • Autumn Cruz • Bob Curran • Dave Curtis • Christine Dellert • Tameesha Desangles • Stephanie Duesing • Cristina Elias • Jane Eto • Mike Etzkin Sr. Designer • Sara Fajardo • Dana Fasano • Trevor Fraser • Shweta Gamble • Barry Glenn • Judy Grimsley • Charlene Hager-Van Dyke • Melissa Harris • David Heeren • Cathy Hertz • Don Hey • Ed Hinton • Sean Holton • April Hunt • Nancy Imperiale • Terry Irwin • Sara Isaac • Bruce Isphording • Dean Johnson • Ryan Johnson • Joe Kaleita • Gene Kruckemyer • Sarah Langbein • Laurie Lawrence • Andrea Lentz • Paul Lester • Denise Lewis • Jennifer Lewis • Jeff Libby • Mick Lochridge • Brad Logan • Larry Lopez • Rick Maese • Rebecca Mahoney • David Marsters • Sylvia Martin • Alex Marvez • Reggie Myers • Loraine O’Connell • Terry O'Roen • Lynn Osgood • Sherri Owens • Maria Padilla • Becky Panoff • Gary Peach • Robert Perez • Manning Pynn • John Raoux • Gail Rayos • Kristen Reed • Carol Rhodes • Tim Rivers • Lisa Roberts • Jon Rodeheffer • Roger Roy • Javier Ruiz • Eric Saegebarth • Jeff Schnick • Gwyneth Shaw • Chris Sherman • Mike Slason • Jack Snyder • Joe Sollaccio • Lou Stancampiano • Matt Steinhoff • Shan Stumpf • Erin Sullivan • Michelle Tevis • Jim Toner • Tammie Wersinger • Keith Wheeler • Susan Whigham • Don Wilson
2 comments:
Thanks for posting the link.
I received a stream of early responses, but they have since tapered off.
The consensus so far seems to be for gatherings at several sites, rather than just one. For that to happen, I need many, many more responses, as well as people willing to coordinate these gatherings. I can be in only two or three places at the same time. ;)
I'm going to close the first survey sometime in the next couple of days.
Frankly, the number of responses has been low. Even if all of the people who support the effort were to show up, the group would be too small to make much of an impression.
In short, unless someone can convince me otherwise, I am going to assume the idea of a gathering is a dead issue.
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