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Our CEO as keynote speaker
Our CEO John Paton will be the keynote speaker at the Editor & Publisher Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow in Las Vegas in June.
That's gotta tell you something about where our company is headed.
The conference promises a "forward-thinking, ground-breaking curriculum" that will give "valuable hands-on insight to continuous industry transformation," kind of like Paton himself.
While part of me wishes I could be there - a bit part of me has always wanted to go to Vegas - I also know that it's not necessary. Paton speaks about the transformation in the news industry on a daily basis to us here at The Middletown Press.
Via Twitter, his blog and direct e-mails to everyone at the Journal Register Company, Paton tries to get the idea across that we are now a digital first multi-media company - no longer a newspaper of the past.
Those who get stuck in the past have no chance of survival.
Slowly but surely you will start seeing changes here on the local level. We will work hard to invite the outside world in, and we want to hear your ideas.
At the News Herald in Ohio, a news team just completed a never-before-heard-of Ben Franklin Project where they published a newspaper both online and in print only by using free, web-based tools. Pretty soon, we will do the same here at the Press. And we want you to be a part of this change.
More details to follow soon.
That's gotta tell you something about where our company is headed.
The conference promises a "forward-thinking, ground-breaking curriculum" that will give "valuable hands-on insight to continuous industry transformation," kind of like Paton himself.
While part of me wishes I could be there - a bit part of me has always wanted to go to Vegas - I also know that it's not necessary. Paton speaks about the transformation in the news industry on a daily basis to us here at The Middletown Press.
Via Twitter, his blog and direct e-mails to everyone at the Journal Register Company, Paton tries to get the idea across that we are now a digital first multi-media company - no longer a newspaper of the past.
Those who get stuck in the past have no chance of survival.
Slowly but surely you will start seeing changes here on the local level. We will work hard to invite the outside world in, and we want to hear your ideas.
At the News Herald in Ohio, a news team just completed a never-before-heard-of Ben Franklin Project where they published a newspaper both online and in print only by using free, web-based tools. Pretty soon, we will do the same here at the Press. And we want you to be a part of this change.
More details to follow soon.
posted by The Middletown Press at
11:06 PM
2 Comments:
I think you need to drop Twitter and Facebook and concentrate on the paper if you want to be a serious journalist. Newslite is not what I want from the Middletown Press. If it is the way to go in this day and age please drop the 'Middletown Press' header. It is disrespectful to what was a very good paper with serious intent. Your choice, not mine. Signed, Ye olde poophead, Sardonica
P.S... and please stop asking what 'we' the readers want. It is your job, not ours to run this paper and blog.THIS is another myth you are being 'taught' in the new 'net' media. It seems to me most of this is an attempt to use the media/news as an excuse to make profit for the few who have taken over the free press in this country. Only my thought but think about it. Are you being sold a bill of goods to serve a select few and their agenda? This would not be free speech, it would be revenue in select pockets with no regard to the people.
P.P.S. I am not the one reporting news as click/fix problem in the recent BIG news. However, at 7 am I did copy and paste the HC coverage becasue there were some questions as to what happened. I enjoy and applaud whoever/ whom* wtf lol it is making the 'report this problem' hits. I have no e addy to enter. Only my primary one and I am not sending it to this place or making one for the purpose but please add my nic in that area. TY
Facebook and Twitter are tools that we use in order for us to reach out to our readers.
We cannot be everywhere at once in Middlesex County, not even in Middletown, so we need help from readers to point out stories that we may be missing or may be of importance to our readers.
We are asking you - and all of our readers - to let us know what you want to read. Is there an issue we are missing in Middletown? Is there government corruption, misuse of funds that you've seen or heard about? We want to know, so we can go out and cover it. Our main goal is to hold government officials accountable for their actions, but we are going to need the help from everyone in the community.
In order for The Middletown Press to be relevant to its readers, we need to write about what readers want to read. We are therefore looking for your thoughts and opinions on what it is you want to read.
You are welcome to continue this discussion in this comment section, or you can call or e-mail me at any time.
Viktoria Sundqvist
Editor
(860) 347-3331, ext. 235
vsundqvist@middletownpress.com
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