Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

It this week’s Hoopla, Gazette Communication’s weekly for “young adults,” there is a short interview with Doug Roberson, longtime booker and bartender at Gabe’s and the Picador. After the interview, Mr. Roberson was laid off. This sucks.
But to make matters worse for Mr. Roberson, when the story appeared online, it ran with this editor’s note:
Shortly [...]

I missed this because my feedreader is purpetually at 1000+ unread items, but I would be remiss if I didn’t link to Mindy McAdams’s reponse to Dan Conover’s 10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news. I was overly optimistic when I took issue with some of Mr. Conover’s assertions.
Ms. McAdams is, of course right. She [...]

From the front of today’s Gazette sports section. That would be a deck about how a college running back took the “unpaved road.” His picture has been put in front of a — wait for it — paved road.
(Hat tip to IowaHawk1, via Twitter.)

On Monday, The Tampa Tribune launched a redesigned, single-section paper similar to the Chicago Tribune’s effort. The Tampa paper’s new format emphasized shorter, alternate format stories and fewer jumps. It had been in the works for a few months (I saw prototype pages floating around when I was there over the summer).
Today, less than a [...]