Monthly Archives: July 2018

GJ Daily Sentinel drops 2 print editions

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My old Newspaper, The (Grand Junction, Colo.) Daily Sentinel is dropping two of its print editions.

Here’s the announcement from GJDS Publisher Jay Seaton made earlier this month.

…  the Monday and Tuesday editions of The Daily Sentinel will be delivered only in a digital format beginning Monday, Aug. 13.

Here’s a sample of their e-edition, free until Aug. 13.

And of their marketing:

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Overkill on the training? If it’s so “easy” why are classes an hour long?

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Fighting back

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Statement of A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times, in Response to President Trump’s Tweet About Their Meeting

July 29, 2018

Earlier this month, A.G. received a request from the White House to meet with President Trump. This was not unusual; there has been a long tradition of New York Times publishers holding such meetings with presidents and other public figures who have concerns about coverage.

On July 20th, A.G. went to the White House, accompanied by James Bennet, who oversees the editorial page of The Times. Mr. Trump’s aides requested that the meeting be off the record, which has also been the practice for such meetings in the past.

But with Mr. Trump’s tweet this morning, he has put the meeting on the record, so A.G. has decided to respond to the president’s characterization of their conversation, based on detailed notes A.G. and James took.

Statement of A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times:

My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.

I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.

I told him that although the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists “the enemy of the people.” I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.

I repeatedly stressed that this is particularly true abroad, where the president’s rhetoric is being used by some regimes to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalists. I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press.

Throughout the conversation I emphasized that if President Trump, like previous presidents, was upset with coverage of his administration he was of course free to tell the world. I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair. Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.

Help.

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From this USA Today columnist:

Calling all billionaires interested in saving democracy. Please invest in newspapers

Local journalism needs your wallet, your generosity, your trust and your promise to not interfere.

Let’s see who steps up.

Yes, Please help.

Here comes The Colorado Sun!

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Several staffers who left The Denver Post amid budget and staff cuts made by the newspaper’s New York-based hedge fund owners are forming a new online news site called The Colorado Sun.

And here are those journalists:

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Want to help them out? Head on over to their Kickstarter page.

Take that Alden Global Capital!