The rumor is that the paper will cut the extra “n” and “t” from its name (credit Reuters blogs).
The City Paper (an alt-weekly in Rochester, NY) has a column on the ever-shrinking daily—their daily paper is owned by Gannett, too.
When their daily made recent cuts, its editor wrote: “Change is constant is the news business these days, but our commitment to serving this community will not waiver.”
Compare that with PNJ executive editor, Dick Schneider: “We are going to look at what we can do well, and what we can let go. Local news will be the No. 1 priority.”
City Paper writes that scaling back the newsroom isn’t good for the community, according to Jack Rosenberry, a communications-journalism professor at St. John Fisher.
Rosenberry says that there’s a direct connection between the health of newspapers and the health of the communities they cover. Finding solutions to community problems requires good, solid journalism that brings both positive and negative information to light,
“If you think good journalism is good for a community, then scaled down or weakened journalism is going to be bad.”
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