Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 16, 2013
1:54 pm
Editor George Spohr says "new circulation starts have been incredible" at
The (Carlisle, Pa.) Sentinel since
The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News reduced print frequency this month.
- Spohr sent this picture of new sub orders and a note: "This is what happens when your competition goes to three days per week."
Seventy-six people subscribed Monday and more than 100 did Tuesday, Spohr wrote in an email to Poynter.
Spohr says Sentinel circulation director Phil Ferrara told him on a usual day, 10 people start subscriptions.
Figures from the Alliance for Audited Media show The Sentinel has an average Sunday circulation of 13,902 and an average circulation of 12,838 Monday-Saturday. The Patriot-News has an average Sunday circulation of 118,655 and average daily circulation of 70,446.
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 26, 2012
2:46 pm
The Sentinel |
WHTM
The (Carlisle, Pa.) Sentinel and Harrisburg, Pa., TV station WHTM have
struck a content-sharing agreement that they think will give them an upper hand when the competing (Harrisburg) Patriot-News
goes to a three-day-per-week print schedule in January.
“There will be a real vacuum for people who like to read the newspaper seven days a week,” [WHTM] President and General Manager Joe Lewin said. “I think the regular subscribers to The Patriot-News feel abandoned, and I know that The Sentinel management sees this as a real opportunity.”
WHTM will provide the Sentinel with weather content, and both news organizations' stories can end up on both platforms. The Sentinel competes with the Patriot-News in Cumberland County, just west of Harrisburg.
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 13, 2012
10:33 am
Pennlive.com
Sara Ganim, who
won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State,
joined CNN as a correspondent this week, The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News reports. “I’m excited to have the chance to cover national breaking news and enterprise," Ganim told her former paper. She will be based in Atlanta.
Ganim told the paper her move was unrelated to the paper's plan to
cut staff and print frequency.
“If you ask me if I had one hesitation, it’s definitely that I wanted to see this through,” she said. “I know people will speculate about it but this has nothing to do with any lack of faith in what The Patriot is doing.”
Ganim told Poynter's Mallary Tenore in August
she had no immediate plans to leave the Pennsylvania paper:
“I’m not going to make a rash decision,” she said. “When the right opportunity comes, I’m going to consider it, but for right now I’m going to stick to where I am.”
Ganim became a CNN contributor this past summer.
“When she started doing CNN, it obviously came naturally. She has journalistic chops and talent to work on any platform. There are not a lot of people who can do that," Managing Editor Mike Feeley said in the paper's story about Ganim's move.
Related: Sara Ganim explains
how she develops sources, gets them to open up |
Video highlights of Ganim’s talk at Poynter | Patriot-News’ first
Pulitzer win honors paper’s legend, Sara Ganim mentor
Earlier: Ganim says Sandusky story is “
just like every other crime story that I report” | Ganim
expects to write many more stories about sexual abuse in her career |
Young Harrisburg reporter has led reporting on sexual abuse story
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 2, 2012
1:20 pm
Pennlive.com
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News politics writer Robert Vickers published a column Friday about
why he's voting for Mitt Romney. In a chat with readers, he talked about the decision, still unusual for a newspaper reporter, to publicly disclose his vote. It wasn't a suicide mission, apparently: In the chat, a reader asked whether he would remain with the paper after it
reduces staff and print frequency next year. "I've been asked to stay on and have agreed to do so," Vickers wrote. Some more excerpts:
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 2, 2012
10:06 am
The Sentinel |
The Patriot-News |
CNYCentral.com |
YNN
The Advance-owned Patriot-News
laid off "about 70" employees Monday, Stacy Brown reports for The (Carlisle, Pa.) Sentinel. Brown gets to that figure independently; Patriot-News publisher John Kirkpatrick tells him only, “Cuts were made in other areas related to the fact that the needs of the organization are different when you are printing three days a week, even if those papers look more like Sunday editions than daily editions."
The Harrisburg, Pa. paper reports
some of the people who've been offered jobs with the new companies that will publish
three days a week starting in January:
Many reporters familiar to readers are receiving job offers. Veteran and well-known journalists such as Jan Murphy, Charles Thompson, Bob Flounders, David Jones, Matt Miller, John Luciew, Joe Hermitt, Sean Simmers, Sue Gleiter, Andrew P. Shay, Tim Leone, Ivey DeJesus, Jeanette Krebs, David Wenner, Robert Vickers, Heather Long and Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim were among those offered jobs.
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Andrew Beaujon
Oct. 1, 2012
10:38 am
The Patriot-News |
The Post-Standard
Employees at the (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News and the (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard will find out Monday whether they'll be kept on at new companies that will
publish print newspapers three days per week. In Pennsylvania,
employees will meet in person with managers:
“The excitement and challenge of starting new companies that can meet the rapidly changing needs of our readers, advertisers and the community are taking a distant back seat today to the needs of dealing the best we can with each person on our staff,” said Patriot-News Publisher and President John Kirkpatrick, who will become president of PA Media Group. “We are all aware that this is an extremely difficult moment for each and every person in our organization.”
70 percent of The Patriot-News' employees will stay on, an unbylined article says. The company will hire 51 new positions, and those laid off "will also be allowed to apply" for them, the article says.
Employees in Syracuse are also expected to learn their fates today. "
[A]bout 60" new jobs will be created there, according to the Post-Standard.
Both papers will begin their new schedules in January. Their corporate siblings in New Orleans and Alabama
began printing on a reduced schedule Monday.
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Andrew Beaujon
Sep. 12, 2012
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 30, 2012
1:01 pm
Pennlive.com
Patriot-News publisher John Kirkpatrick, Editor Cate Barron and Pennlive.com Editor David Farré took questions from readers about the Harrisburg, Pa., paper's planned shift to print three days a week. It
announced the changes Tuesday.
In response to a question about layoffs, Kirkpatrick said, "I am almost positive we will have fewer employees when this is all said and done. We plan, however, to make sure there are just as many photographers, reporters, content providers as well as the same size (if not larger) sales staff as we have now." Later he said that the paper would probably have had to cut staff "even if we did not make this move."
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Jeff Sonderman
Aug. 28, 2012
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 28, 2012
10:33 am
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Syracuse.com
The (Harrisburg, Pa.) Patriot-News, which
won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Penn State scandal, and The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard are following their corporate siblings in
Alabama and
New Orleans to a reduced printing schedule.
Beginning in January 2013, the Patriot-News will print on Sundays and two other days that "will be determined after gathering input from readers and advertisers," an unbylined article reports. "Further details and how these changes will affect employees, readers and advertisers will be announced over the coming weeks and months,"
Syracuse's announcement reads.
Advance executive Randy Siegel tells Poynter in an email there's no word on layoffs yet:
Our local leadership is evaluating the needs of the two new organizations and will let employees know as soon as is possible. It is likely that there will be fewer employees at the new organizations than currently at The Patriot-News. However, our complement of reporters and content creators will be comparable in size to our current staff.
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