This 28-page tabloid explores how newsroom staffers see change and how they resist it. A thorough list of questions editors should ask before instituting newsroom improvements is included. In this compact booklet, journalists from around the country explain why they re happy to work at small newspapers. Journalists ranging from photographers to managing editors discuss the thrill of getting the story and the importance of small-town newspapers to their communities. An excellent recruiting tool.
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Thinking about the mechanics of writing could go a long way to increasing readership, the authors say. The writing that wins the ASNE Distinguished Writing Awards and Jesse Laventhol Prizes is presented in Best Newspaper Writing 1997, produced by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. For orders other than Best Newspaper Writing 1997, send a check in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank or an international money order made out to the ASNE Foundation. Send it to Publications Fulfillment, 11690B Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston VA 20191-1409. There is a 20 percent discount on orders of 20 or more.