Newspapers need to understand the fast changing world of news coverage. The 24/7 news coverage from TV, the internet, and blogs are just a sampling of what are affecting the newspapers.
Newspaper print is dying. I am sure that many employees of Eastman Kodak Co, would have never thought that traditional picture taking would be taken over by digital photography. Now, what used to be a company that had 125,000 employees has now dwindled down to 27,000 employees.
Newspapers also need to understand that sometimes their personal agenda for news coverage may be a factor in driving customers away from print media.
USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The San Jose Mercury News and The Kansas City Star have something in common, aside from some of the biggest names in an endangered industry. Read more on Editors and Publishers in a Revolving Door.
J. Todd Foster, the managing editor of the Bristol Herald Courier expresses his frustration below with the Kingsport, Tennessee school system over his sports reporter not being treated fairly.
It must be that the Bristol Herald Courier is not a member of the “good old boys club”. To be a member, you must say only good things about the City of Kingsport. It took me a while, but I figured it out, that the Kingsport Times News is nothing more than the public relations department for the City of Kingsport.
More hard hitting newspaper coverage is badly needed in Kingsport for issues that include the city government and school system. Welcome to Kingsport, Todd! Please provide more Kingsport coverage in your newspaper.
By J. Todd Foster
Editor / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: August 24, 2008
The good folks at Dobyns-Bennett High School apparently don’t understand the meaning of the term “press box.” Either that, or they were engaging in an act of discrimination on Thursday night when they refused to admit one of our sportswriters to the press section to cover the D-B football game with Tennessee High. Read more on Dobyns-Bennett
KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Twenty-two Bristol Herald Courier journalists were honored Wednesday night by the Greater Tri-Cities Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
In the Fifth Annual Mountain Empire Journalism Contest, the Herald Courier staff won more first-place awards – 15 – than any other newspaper and 53 awards overall, tops among all newspapers. Other area papers honored were the Johnson City Press, with 13 awards; and the Kingsport Times-News, with 30. Johnson City Press and Kingsport Times-News are owned by Sandusky Newspapers. Read more on Greater Tri-Cities Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists