NEWSLETTER FOR FEBRUARY 2008
Ronnie Ramos: The page views for our online Signing Day coverage told part of the story: more than 600,000 page views in one day, more than double last year's total. How did we do it? Two major innovations allowed us to get more news, faster, online and in a more visible way. (Feb. 19)
Toby Carrig: The Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., decided in December to attack its sports editor vacancy with two people instead of one. Chris Shelton and Jennifer Osieczanek are sharing the sports editor duties at the 30,000-circulation daily in the hometown of the University of Colorado. They supervise a staff of four other employees in the sports department. (Feb. 12)
Mike Fannin: With all our contest entries now resting comfortably in Florida, let's look ahead to what we'll be discussing in Orlando at the end of this month. It's critical that a few items get our immediate attention. (Feb. 7)
Larry Vaught: Big stories for a small paper can be a little different than what a big story might be considered at a larger newspaper. However, that doesn't mean we can't treat stories we consider big in a way that maximizes readership. (Feb. 5)
Lynn Hoppes: In a few weeks, more than 80 sports editors will meet in Orlando to judge this year's contest and talk about the future of the contest. We really need everyone's input on what we'd like to do. (Feb. 4)
Garry D. Howard: Hitchcock, Texas, is a very small Gulf Coast town about 40 miles south of Houston. But there is nothing small about Carlton Thompson, the 37-year-old African-American who has been named Sports Editor of the Houston Chronicle, the state's largest daily newspaper. (Feb. 2)
Roy Hewitt: The U.S. Olympic Committee needs the names of those credentialed writers, photographers and editors who will go to the Olympics in Beijing this summer. The deadline for filing the information is Feb. 26. (Jan. 31)
Jim Cohen, widely known as an innovator in sports journalism, has been named sports editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cohen replaces Jim Jenks, the former Associated Press Sports Editor President who resigned from the Inquirer in November 2007 to accept a high-level position with
MLB.com.
(Jan. 30)