Right in the centre - On a number of points
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- Published on Friday, December 7, 2018
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
It’s been a while since I have written a point by point column, but this week, there just seems to be a few issues that may deserve a few words each.
My perspective - New funding, old problem
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- Published on Friday, December 7, 2018
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
The newspaper industry is one in flux. While the various components that make up the industry are often lumped together, the reality isn’t nearly such a homogeneous group. There are dailies and weeklies, rural and urban markets, chains and independents. The problems of one aren’t necessarily the problems of all.
Right in the centre - I am skeptical
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- Published on Friday, November 30, 2018
By Ken Waddell
Neepawa Banner & Press
The federal Liberal government has been studying newspapers for several years. A couple of years ago, I was invited to fly to Ottawa to testify before the parliamentary Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. At that time, I made the case that we need reliable local newspapers to cover local news, sports and political issues. The whole fake news idea was gaining steam at that time and has since become a full-blown epidemic. There are now many “news” outlets that spread falsehoods with pride and others that do it by way of sloppy reporting.
My perspective - Experience, mediocrity
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- Published on Friday, November 30, 2018
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
Neepawa Banner & Press
Experience, we all know it’s important, but are we valuing the right kind? I listened to a podcast last week that got me thinking about this topic. It was a conversation with Rick Rubin, one of the most influential music producers in America and in 2006, one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
Right in the centre - The locally printed word
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- Published on Friday, November 23, 2018
By Ken Waddell
Neepaw Banner & Press
Every week, and sometimes several times a week, we get an email from some company out of New York, Toronto or somewhere else far away, wanting to help us with doing our job at our newspaper. Typically, they offer written content for our paper. It isn’t free of course, it comes at a price. Having a cost attached to it isn’t the worst part. The worst part is the assumption that what someone writes 2,000 miles away would be of specific interest to local people. We are a local paper and our success, or at least the key to our survival, is that we provide stories you won’t find anywhere else.
