It s gotten to be a good revenue source, he said. News-Times staffers spent time looking at their town s main street. They also tried to assess its future. Swapping papers for ideas The Colorado Press Association operates a newspaper exchange service so editors can see what other papers are doing. It s simple.
Participants receive labels every few weeks and mail their paper off.
It helps like-sized newspapers get a look at what their cohorts are doing across the state. County data on the Web Arizona s legislature wanted to end a newspaper publishing requirement for minutes of county board meetings, so the Arizona Newspapers Association put minutes on its Web site instead. In response to that and lobbying, Web publishing became the law. Times-News was concerned about drug use among teens, so, in cooperation with the school system it did a series called Kids and Drugs, interviewing more than 300 students. Teens felt there was nothing to do in Hendersonville and that no one listened.