From the Morning News:
Florence has been ranked fifth in Site Selection magazine’s 2008 ranking of top metropolitan areas for new and expanding facilities.
The fifth place ranking is for communities in the United States for areas with a population between 50,000 and 200,000.
Apparently Rusty Smith does not read the Flossip, because he failed to mention me in his highlights of why Flo-town is so great…
By the way– have you heard that newspapers are struggling? Media General just CLOSED their Washington office. I know we all sometimes complain about the Morning News… but I can’t imagine life without an actual paper. What will I read while I drink my coffee? What would we complain about? How would we know tidbits like above? SAVE THE PAPER. SUBSCRIBE TODAY!
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First off, I’m a writer. A technical writer, but my initial plan was to go into journalism and write for a newspaper. I did it in college (university newspaper, hometown newspaper, and university PR) and wanted to do it for a living, and I loved interviewing people, meeting new people every day, it’s a good variety, I guess. But I’m glad life didn’t lead me down that path.
One of my friend’s (who used to be a newspaper writer but left voluntarily) boyfriend was laid off from his job as an editor. We know another guy who was a graphic designer & got laid off. Two of my friends currently work for Media General, one in the Florence office and one in LC.
The sad thing is that the shortened staff, furloughs, etc- that decreases the paper’s quality. If your staff is decreased, downsized, furloughed, etc- the paper will run more stories from the Associated Press (AP). These are free stories that are syndicated from other newspapers. They don’t have to pay my friends in the news industry to write these. Less local news is covered, and I think local news is what people really want to read. I don’t want to read AP stories, I want to read stuff that people I know wrote, things about Florence (or places close to it). If I want national news, I’ll watch TV
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