You can strike a blow for better American newspapers. You can experience the flattery of imitation. You can impress your traveling companion. The program committee for that convention is working on identifying the 50 or 60 best new newspaper content ideas from readers of The American Editor and their newspapers. These might be for sports pages or news pages, Web sites or special sections, TV books or indexes.
All takeaways ought to be considered in light of small papers as well as larger papers.
That's what this is about. If yours is selected, a sample of it will be photographed for a slide and shown on big screens. Then, it's time for your 60 seconds in the spotlight. You'll explain your paper's innovation to a moderator and the assembled editors. Audience members will go away with a list of what they might try at their own papers, the names of contact people and the ASNE's Web site address - we'll post the ideas there, too.