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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Posted by David Zeeck @ 11:39:06 am
After our Sunday paper -- and it's return to a Tacoma News Tribune flag -- reader Alex Griffin wrote the reader rep:
Here's my answer:
Categories: Zeeck
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COMMENTS:
I think that answer is a load of crock to be honest with you. The Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer and other big name newspapers that I could mention here, have all the major cities that they serve, represent and have their headquarters in as the title, front and center of their respective newspapers.
I think it's another SLAP!!! in Tacomas face, heck even Spokane has a newspaper named after it. This is what you would call (the big league) when you have a newspaper, sports team, a known business like Russell Investment Group named after your city or has it's headquarters located in your city. The News Tribune has got it wrong I think. I think Tacoma deserves to have it's name on a local/national newspaper (and I'm not talking about the Tacoma Weekly either) anytime a newspaper is sold outside the city limits it's more advertisment for that city, and of course prestige. Maybe it's time Tacoma has two newspapers. One for the south sound and one for the Geater Tacoma area. It's long over due. Then maybe Tacoma will get the R-E-S-P-E-C-T that it deserves. WE LOVE YOU TAHOMA, The Glass City of Destiny. Tacoma, Washington The City of Tacoma needs to keep doing what it's doing and it will be that WORLD CLASS CITY that it desires and deserves to be.
Actually Spokane isn't in the newspaper name. It's The Spokesman-Review. Much like The Herald, which dropped Everett from the name. Or The Columbian, which has no Vancouver in it. Or The Oregonian, no Portland.
It's a choice that newspapers make. Some start with no city in the name. Others, particularly in the last generation or so, dropped the city name.
I'm from Orange County (CA) and grew up reading the OC Register. When David Zeeck mentioned that the paper is based in Santa Ana, I envisioned a very different paper (not positive) if it had been called the Santa Ana Register. Santa Ana is an inland city and I'm from a coastal city, meaning that the life style of the residents living in either city are VERY different. I truly doubt that a Santa Ana Register, like a Tacoma Tribune, could be nearly as successful as the current OC Register or our ever faithful News Tribune. I now live in Auburn (work in Tacoma) and I read TNT online every day... addicted to its fabulous and dedicated writers. Just like David Zeeck said, TNT now "represents a much larger and more diverse area." In my opinion, its a better name, and a better newspaper.
I see no real problem with the newspaper being called "The News Tribune", it shows to me that they want to have an appearance of a newspaper thats for the region and not just for one place. If I was to buy a paper I would rather get one that had a name that suggests the surrounding area then one that implies just a city. Anyway thats my opinion.
Quite frankly, in my opinion, what composes the name of a paper is truly not relevant to what's IN the paper. If it were named Bob's News Tribune after having such a long history, I sincerely doubt if the readership would change.( Unless, of course, they started writing articles pertainent only to those named Bob).
The TNT is what it is BECAUSE of what it is, not what it's named. I happen to think that the Tacoma Ledger is also a fine newspaper, but because of their emphasis on things central to Tacoma. I feel that their Sports coverage of Tacoma Schools is much better because of the local emphasis. I personally don't care what Kent-Meridian's Baseball team did yesterday. The name is not what makes them a good paper. Nor does it restrict them to what they write about.
The actual name doesn't concern me one way or the other; I grew up in Tacoma, live in Issaquah, and read the TNT online daily. It would be nice if some sort of geographical reference were part of the online header. It drives me crazy to click on a link in an article and have no idea what part of the country the reporters are talking about. If a national site linked to a TNT story, their readers would likely have no idea who or where we are.
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Dave Zeeck has been executive editor of The News Tribune since 1994. He was a reporter and editor for 20 years at The Kansas City Star before moving to the TNT. He's been active in journalism education and several professional organizations, and is president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He's married to an employment lawyer; they have two sons, both of whom are college students. Here's a link to his full bio. Email Dave Karen Peterson has been managing editor of The News Tribune since June 2005. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen Deputy managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. He oversees both the sports and business departments. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David Occasional contributors: * Randy McCarthy: Crime/breaking news * Hunter George: Public life * John Henrikson: Tacoma, education * Matt Misterek: Subruban, military * Jeff Standaert: Crime/breaking news * Marcelene Edwards: Business * Jeremy Harrison: Photo * Norma Martin: Soundlife * Sue Kidd: Lifestyle * Craig Sailor: Arts & Entertainment * Mark Briggs: Online * Jim Kresse: Copy desk * Mary Anderson: News administration * Toi Britton: News research Category
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