Duxbury
Reporter moves from Marshfield to Plymouth, Mass.
The Duxbury (Mass.) Reporter
has moved to a newsroom in Plymouth, Mass., used by sister newspapers.
The Reporter had been based
in Marshfield, Mass., where it had relocated in 2006 after the then-Memorial
Press Group newspapers merged with newspapers in the Community Newspaper
Company under their new owner, GateHouse Media New England, based
in Needham, Mass.
Scott C. Smith,
senior managing editor for the Reporter, said the Reporter’s
editor in chief, publisher and he agreed that it should be located
in the same newsroom with its sister newspapers.
Boston
paper uses slim resources to cover Haiti quake
When an earthquake destroyed
much of Haiti Jan. 12, the Boston Haitian Reporter, a Boston-based
monthly publication focused on the city's Haitian community, faced
the challenge of how to cover the catastrophe without abundant news
resources.
The Reporter is a printed publication with a circulation of about
6,000 and a news Web site. While larger newspapers could afford to
send reporters and photographers to Haiti, the smaller Reporter could
not.
The Reporter began monitoring
posts on social networking Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter
where there were many Haitian-American sources, Bill Forry, managing
editor of the Reporter, told The Boston Phoenix. When cell phone communication
was finally available to Haiti, the Reporter staff was able to verify
and update online reports, making Bostonhaitian.com a place to share
information in the earthquake’s aftermath.
What is now the Reporter's
post-quake Weblog also includes updates on national happenings related
to Haiti, as well as a Twitter feed where the Reporter is offering
its translating skills to help connect victims to emergency services.
The Reporter's first correspondent
covering the disaster was an old friend of Forry, Richard Innocent,
who was a sales representative for the Reporter. He moved back to
Haiti last month and became the voice on the ground for the Reporter
through cell phone conversations with Forry after the quake hit. Innocent
has also been involved in several rescue efforts in the city of Delmas,
where he was located recently. Innocent spent at least three days
sleeping under a tree in Delmas after the initial earthquake struck.
Herald
News of Fall River, Mass., launches branding campaign
The
Herald News of Fall River, Mass., adopted a branding campaign as of
Jan. 17 that emphasizes the immediacy and balance of its coverage
of news in the community.
The Herald News has taken
on a new tagline: “REALITY. DELIVERED DAILY.”
Sean
Burke, publisher, said in a Herald News story: “We’re
excited about our new campaign and its objective of defining the journalism
we provide to the community vs. the increasingly fragmented media
landscape and its emphasis on entertainment.”
The Herald News reported
that its branding campaign “seeks to reinforce the identity,
strength, durability, vitality, trustworthiness and journalistic integrity
of The Herald News and its affiliated Web site, heraldnews.com …
“The new branding campaign is intended to underscore the news
organization’s role as a respectable and balanced news-gathering
operation, as well as a disciplined and well-researched opinion forum.”
The newspaper’s affiliated
Web site, hearldnews.com, also sports a new tagline -- “REALITY.
DELIVERED NOW!” – aimed at focusing on its up-to-the-minute
news coverage.
The editor in
chief of the Herald News, Lisa Strattan, told the newspaper that “
… we deliver reality, with all its beauty and all its warts
… (W)e always endeavor to hold up a mirror to our community and
reflect the reality that takes place every day, every hour, every
minute. It’s what we do best.”
Ex-Milford
(Mass.) Daily News scribe writing second novel
Stacy
Juba, a former reporter for the Milford (Mass.) Daily News, is hoping
to publish her second novel by the end of the year, after having her
first published in October, according to the MetroWest Daily News
of Framingham, Mass.
Her first book, “Twenty-Five
Years Ago Today,” is a modern murder mystery centered on a neophyte
journalist turned detective. Her second novel will focus on a reality
show contestant who notices the gradual disappearance of his fellow
participants, the Daily News reported.
Juba credits the
Daily News, for which she worked from 1995 to 2000, for giving her
the experience and inspiration to begin her writing, the Daily News
said.
‘Fake
AP Stylebook’ scores book deal
The
FakeAPStylebook Twitter feed, which has gained more than 89,000 followers
since its launch in late October, has mushroomed into a book deal.
The men behind the Twitter
feed spoof on The Associated Press Stylebook are Ken Lowery, a copy
editor at United Methodist Reporter in Dallas, and Mark Hale, a friend
of Lowery in Louisville, Ky. They are assisted by a group of contributors
called “The Bureau Chiefs,” including a librarian, a lawyer,
and an associate professor of English, among others.
The book will
be available in spring 2011, from Three Rivers Press.
The items above
were written from published reports by Mary Catherine Adams, a graduate
student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism; by Megan
Pollock and Jillian Saftel, undergraduate students there; and by Zachary
Boutin, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University. Adams
and Pollock are members of the Bulletin staff, Saftel and Boutin are
Bulletin correspondents. Adams is also news staff coordinator for
the Bulletin.
