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Nancy Barnes emphasized in her ASNE chat that dropping print every day but Sunday isn’t going to happen soon. (“Not in the next five years.”) “We still sell a lot of daily papers,” said the Minneapolis editor. “We see a strong Sunday paper for many years to come. It’s our engine. We see even younger readers buying the Sunday paper for lots of reasons from content to coupons. I don’t think it’s all coupon craziness. Our focus groups showed people still liked to read a paper on Sunday.”
More from Barnes’ chat:
* The staff is tweeting and blogging a lot. I have some concerns that the tweeting sometimes takes away from work for us.
* We have assigned Kevin Diaz, a DC reporter, to cover [Michele Bachmann] fulltime plus we have others doing more background research… Bachmann has been fascinating to cover, for years. We never anticipated her presidential bid though.
* I don’t really see MinnPost as a competitor; they focus more on being a second read. Some original reporting, and lots of commentary. Sometimes they are able to do more commentary than we are, when there is a big new story. I’d say the relationship is relatively cordial.
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