Journalists describe Digital First changes this year in The Record newsroom
I often write about the Digital First efforts at the new Journal Register Company, parent company of this Web site. Journalists in the newsroom at The Record in Troy recently reflected on the changes...
View ArticleJournal Register CEO John Paton delivers frank assessment of challenges to...
The CEO of the Journal Register Company, parent company of four NY papers - The Record (Troy), The Oneida Daily Dispatch, Saratogian and Daily Freeman - delivered a frank critique of the challenges the...
View ArticleIt's coming ... San Francisco Giants' World Series Trophy coming home to...
After a campaign lasting over five weeks, The Record has done something that may have seemed a little far-fetched to some when we began it: We've convinced the San Francisco Giants to bring the World...
View ArticleThe year in review - 2010 at The Record
This was a transformational year in the history of The Record. We took a firm step into our digital future while buttressing our legacy print business. The year in review:Digital FirstIn February,...
View ArticleJournal Register Company ends 2010 the talk of the newspaper industry
This blog was updated Dec. 23.I published my year-in-review/2011 preview on The Record (Troy, N.Y.) today, and in the next week, will write a similar piece about our sister newspaper, the Oneida Daily...
View ArticleOneida Daily Dispatch readers can look for big changes in 2011
After I became publisher of the Oneida Daily Dispatch in March, we had hoped to implement some big changes to improve the quality of our product. And while we made strides over the last nine months, a...
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Princess Leah extends a Happy New Year greeting - and a pizza recipe
Princess Leah Remington Since being named Rensselaer County Dairy Princess in July, Hoosic Valley High School junior Leah Remington has religiously emailed The Record every week with her...
View ArticleThoughts on the future Oneida Daily Dispatch and the state of the newspaper...
The following is my notes for a speech given Feb. 8, 2011 to the Oneida Rotary Club on the topic of the state of the newspaper industry and the future of the Oneida Daily Dispatch.Thanks Brian...
View ArticleBringing the outside in; reflecting on the Times-Union's decision to close...
Technology has certainly made it easier for journalists to interact with their readers. It is not only tools such as email, Facebook and Twitter that enables communication (and hopefully...
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Feast or famine: The art, science of event marketing at The Record's...
I suspect accountants get queried regularly at this time of year for free tax advice. So when one publicly offers to give it for free, you would expect a mob. Full house at a Troy Record...
View ArticleJournal Register Company making news again
The Journal Register Company - parent company to four NY dailies (Daily Freeman, Oneida Daily Dispatch, The Record, Saratogian) is making - not just writing - headlines again.There were two big...
View ArticleOneida Daily Dispatch begins new chapter
The Oneida Daily Dispatch you read Monday was produced in much the same way it has been since the newspaper’s inception 160 years ago. It was written, edited, designed in our newsroom. It was printed...
View ArticleJournal Register Company newspapers, Web sites partner with The Street
All Journal Register Company newspapers, including four in New York - The Record, Oneida Daily Dispatch, Daily Freeman and Saratogian - have partnered with The Street, a leading financial news and...
View ArticleMayor Harry J. Tutunjian: Troy, N.Y. is moving in the right direction
I have been saying it for my 19 months at The Record and now it is official: Mayor Harry J. Tutunjian wrote a guest column today at troyrecord.com that Troy, N.Y. "is moving in the right direction".
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The Oneida Daily Dispatch's own David Johnson connects the community to Twitter
David Johnson, standing, leads an Oneida Daily Dispatch Communty Media Lab workshop at the Oneida Public Library.The Oneida Dispatch's David Johnson led a workshop on Twitter Saturday at the Oneida...
View ArticleThe challenges and opportunities of 'disruption' to daily newspapers such as...
The following are my notes for a speech delivered April 21, 2011 to the Oneida’s Club on the future of the Oneida Daily Dispatch. During President Barack Obama’s talk at Facebook headquarters yesterday...
View ArticleMiddle schools newspapers eligible for Newspaper Association of America grant
Grants are available to middle schools for their efforts to support or start a printed or digital school newspaper. For more information follow this link.
View ArticleNewpaper industry's 'hard economic lessons'
Jeff Jarvis succinctly explores the "hard economic lessons for news" in his blog today. Must-read for anyone employed in the business or fascinated by it. Disclaimer: Jarvis is an advisor for the...
View ArticleJay Rosen shares what he knows about journalism
One day after posting a link to thought-provoking blog on the economics of journalism from one Journal Register Company (JRC) advisor, Jeff Jarvis, I find myself posting a link to a second blog by...
View ArticleMaking The Record newsroom the center of the Troy, N.Y. community
A colleague of mine, Matt DeRienzo, publisher of The Register Citizen and Foothills Media Group in Northwest Connecticut, was kind enough to highlight some of the great work the newsroom at the Troy...
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