Does the future of small-town news depend on big social media? Jeremy Weldon, the news editor at the Panolian, a newspaper in Panola County, Mississippi, is a reluctant supporter of social media. While he runs a traditional bi-weekly paper, he believes that social media is an …
You’ve seen it time after time. That brand-new general manager who is now running your station came from, you guessed it, sales. On rare occasions, a news director, or even a creative services director, becomes a general manager, but those seem to be the oddities. …
Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a third-generation newspaper publisher who has next-generation ideas. His latest innovation? Giving away free iPads to his subscribers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock has stopped printing the Monday-Saturday editions and instead is giving free iPads to those …
NewsLab.org: Powered by the University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism & New Media If you are a part of the journalism or media industry, chances are someone inspired you to take that career path. It’s possible you were influenced to become a government watchdog by …
