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FEATURES
THE STATE OF THE SYNDICATES
With newsrooms shrinking and
newspapers still looking to provide
content, one might think the
providers of syndicated content
would be doing a booming business.
But are they? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
A DIGITAL RETOOLING
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here’s a lot more to your In keeping
Editor & Publisher subscription with its new CEO’s digital-first
philosophy, Journal Register Co. tries
than paper and ink! As a
an experiment in which its papers are
subscriber you can go online for asked to swap out its legacy systems
premium content — at no additional cost. for free Web tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 AMERICAS EXTRA Aid from the
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Q&A: Greg Osberg
SYNDICATES Reuben Award winner
Directory of Online Services Philadelphia Newspapers’ new
publisher/CEO talks about the
Dan Piraro of Bizarro fame discusses
cartooning and reveals his favorite
■ Breaking News Visit challenges ahead in ushering the City
part of the job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
www.editorandpublisher.com/news of Brotherly Love’s two major papers
forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 OPERATIONS New York’s Daily
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The Associated Press slips into the realizing the potential of its
■ Departments: Business, Ad/Circ, upgraded plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico to
Newsroom, Technology, Online, and
deliver a firsthand account . . . . . . . 6
Syndicates news at MARKETPLACE Highlights of recent
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to target the “middleman” role of upgrades, sales and installations 26
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■ Letters to the Editor E-mail us at Franchising the news syndicated content . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
letters@editorandpublisher.com A former publisher of community
newspapers is back in business with
NEWSOSAUR Alan D. Mutter on how
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an extra $100K a week to its gross
delivered daily, and the twice-weekly community news sites . . . . . . . . . . 12
advertising revenues . . . . . . . . . . 92
“Tech Connection” e-newsletter highlighting
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DEPARTMENTS Sherman Frederick fights back
against those who would steal what’s
■ Columns Fresh insight daily at EDITORIAL When the Federal Trade rightfully his . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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gainers in combined print and online Features Syndicate; United Feature
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FOR CONSTANT UPDATES
J
OURNAL REGISTER CO.’S BEN FRANKLIN “Newspapers are process-driven,”
Paton says. “And in many cases the
Project might strike some as a stunt. But to processes are broken because the
CEO John Paton, the reason to make the companies themselves haven’t
invested in the proper IT, and our
chain’s 18 dailies produce a newspaper thinking gets heavily invested in
using only digital tools available for free on this broken process.”
And if any newspaper company
the Internet is to force a change in thinking. was broken, it was Journal
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