April 5, 2023 | Hardly a week goes by that I don’t meet with one or two publishers to review their newspapers and make recommendations to increase their readership and overall business. Obviously, some papers require more attention than others, but it’s rare I don’t have at least a few dozen recommendations concerning potential changes. …
March 4, 2024 | When checking my email a few days ago, I came upon a curious message from a publisher in Missouri: Kevin:Just checking in to see if you received my previous emails.Bill You guessed it. I hadn’t. Thankfully, Bill sent this latest message to an alternate email address, which appeared in my inbox. …
October 1, 2023 | By Kevin Slimp A funny thing happened to me in Denver a few days ago while I was in town to speak at the Colorado Press Association Convention. I had just finished my fourth presentation of the weekend. The topic was “Designing a Better Newspaper.” Most of the folks in the …
November 1, 2023 | By Kevin Slimp | THIS COLUMN IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY What is that all about, you ask? There was a day, not that long ago (okay, maybe 20 years ago), when I couldn’t get through a Photoshop class without someone in the audience getting upset. “What about journalistic ethics?” this …
August 3, 2023 | By Kevin Slimp | My friend, Kari, wrote to me from her newspaper in Indiana this morning. Her message reminded me of the questions I received daily when doing I.T. work for newspaper groups a decade or two ago. Her email went something like this: “The PDF file of this page …
July 18, 2023 | By Kevin Slimp | As I listen to the July 4 fireworks outside my window, my thoughts revolve around the newspaper colleagues I’ve met over the past few weeks and the lessons I’ve learned. Having finished several major redesign projects in June, I’ve recently traveled to speak at several newspaper conventions …
June 20, 2023 | By Kevin Slimp | If you regularly read my columns, you know that I write about focus groups quite often. Don’t worry. I’m not writing bout focus groups today. However, I want to discuss another kind of group that I find beneficial to many newspapers I visit. Now and then, I …
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