For the Chron, all news is not local
Yesterday an unusual item was posted in the Metro section of Chron.com: a directory, which included a listing of the Chronicle's bureaus. Of note are the Chron's international bureaus:
• Mexico City Dudley Althaus, Bureau Chief
Privada Gomez Farias 21, Col. San Angel, 01060 Mexico, D.F.• Bogotá, Colombia John Otis, Bureau Chief
E-mail: [email protected]• Europe and Middle East Gregory Katz, Bureau Chief
E-mail: [email protected]
Why in the world does the Chronicle need international bureaus? Who knows. It's certainly a waste of precious resources that would be put to much better use locally...which leads us to Banjo Jones' latest ruminations on the current state of our lone major daily paper, and its inability to keep up with some local publishing upstarts:
We've noticed recently that just cause The Chron is the only daily paper in Houston, it still gets beat to the punch by the little local freebie weeklies.
Case in point: The Examiner News that covers West University, Bellaire, River Oaks and Memorial.
The weekly, a recent acquisition of Houston Community Newspapers, employs, for the most part, young journalists freshly minted from academia who don't make much money and usually could use a shoe shine. They are so new to the business, they have yet to become disillusioned and jaded and hopelessly depressed like their older brethren.
Moreover, even though they only publish once-a-week, they still whup up on the big-swinging-weenie Chronicle on a fairly regular basis.
Here are two examples, carefully documented by our research staff:
Be sure to read the rest, and wonder along with me why our local paper is wasting money on a pathetic Washington, D.C., bureau, and three international bureaus, when much of the time it uses wire service stories anyway.
Wouldn't it be nice to see some local bureaus added?
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 04/21/07 08:23 PM | Print |
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