Matt DeRienzo is group editor of Digital First Media's publications in Connecticut, including the New Haven Register, Middletown Press, Register Citizen and Connecticut Magazine. Contact him at mderienzo@21st-centurymedia.com.
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Category Archives: The Associated Press
A new kind of newspaper severance: Help laid-off journalists be entrepreneurs and partners
As I was packing for a trip north to speak at the Maine Press Association convention this weekend about our Newsroom Cafe project in Connecticut, this story came across my Twitter feed this morning. The Portland Press Herald, my hometown … Continue reading
AP agrees to credit news sources
The Associated Press has adopted a new policy on attribution that seems “duh” in its basic premise: Credit the original news source in member-generated stories that it rewrites for the wire. The fact that it needs this policy to bring … Continue reading
Partnering our way back to relevance
My newspaper is following through on what I speculated about in a previous post, that partnerships with new media can supplement, maybe even replace, state coverage from The Associated Press. We now have agreements with CT Watchdog, a Web site … Continue reading
Shaking up The Associated Press
I received my proxy ballot for The Associated Press’s annual meeting yesterday. About five years ago, the AP moved from a normal election process for its board of directors (multiple candidates running for a certain number of seats, the person … Continue reading
How’s this? Partner with one of your critics
Our first experiment with the type of partnership I talked about in an earlier post is getting a great reception from readers. George Gombossy, a former business editor and longtime journalist at the Hartford Courant, has taken his hard-charging and … Continue reading
Partnerships must replace AP for certain news coverage
The Associated Press long ago stopped doing a good job providing coverage of state government. And over the past five to 10 years, newspapers have also scaled way back or eliminated Statehouse coverage completely. And even the state government coverage … Continue reading
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