Your Grubbiest Executive is a fiend for well-told narratives about the nuts and bolts of the business.Here are three recent pieces about how the industry is still vital and upholding its mission.A new way to cover meetings that matter to you…
“Gone are the 1,000-word narratives of meetings that sometimes read as passion plays and other times drone on as if our own stories were written by bureaucrats,” explains Half Moon Bay Review Editor Clay Lambert. “In place of the meeting stories — the workhorse of local journalism from Petaluma to Poughkeepsie — we are trying something different.”What’s going on at 400 E. Park Avenue | Editor’s notes …
“People are usually surprised when I rattle off the names of newspapers that are printed on our press in Chico,” Chico Enterprise-Record Editor Mike Wolcott writes. “Here goes…”My favorite newspaper memory? Getting to yell, ‘Stop the presses!’ …
“If there is a temple of journalism, it is the press room: A huge space that demands humility, inspiring prayers and pleas of forgiveness from those who enter,” Ukiah Daily Journal columnist Justine Frederiksen writes. “Even the notoriously robust ego of a journalist is easily shrunk when that massive machine shows just how small a part one person plays in putting out a newspaper.”
