From it. Maybe even ways to improve it. Rfou 02 5853880 eastern and central time zone. For mountain and pacific time zones. You can reach out to us on twitter, post on our facebook email, too. Us an in the spirit of the question today, we decided to take an informal survey among the staff here to talk about their local newspapers and show you a bit about what they are covering and how they focus. If you turn to the forum of north dakota, the north Dakota State University the effectiveness of the investment and how compares to other state universities. If you look at the freelance star of fredericksburg, virginia, a story broke out of chief in that county. Theou turned the pages of times tribune of florida, talking about storm damages. A couple of crime stories related as well. If you go to the modesto bee out of california, a shooting at a campus there. Some national stuff, but also some farming stories as well. Minutes, wet 45 want to get a sense about your local newspaper. If you get something from it, if you read it every day. Maybe you have comments on it as well directed to those who publish the paper. If you want to give us your thoughts on your local newspaper. Please tell us what your local newspaper is. For those of you in the eastern and central time zones. In the mountain and pacific time zones. To help us start a process of talking about the effectiveness of local news, joining us on the phone is rick edmonds. He is with the Poynter Institute. A Media Business analyst for that publication. For those who may not know, what is the Poynter Institute . its a Nonprofit School for journalists. In our discussions about the local newspaper, what are your thoughts about the current state of it . Its a dispute that newspapers have had to shrink in the last several years and advertising print revenues have been down by more than half in the last 78 years. Whether you have a great paper or a slim paper to begin with, there is less of a now than there used to be. Places are still trying to do the traditional investigative. Eporting as best they can they still tend to be the largest and strongest news operations in a given city. Host how to add revenues in affect reporting staff . Caller they have shrunk a good deal. Maybe 30 has been typical. 17,000 jobs lost. Is facing paper declining ad revenues and declining reporting staff, how does it set itself apart . Still a good is size that compared to what you might find at a local television station. There have been a number of good quality and ambitious topics to take on. 810might have a staff of for one that is fairly substantial. The newspaper would still have 5060. Host any statistics about readership . Are they not reading it or migrating to the web . Caller there has been some of that. Almost every newspaper has a website. Those tend to be the largest in the town. Certainly the bigger newspapers are trying to produce editions that display wherell on smart phones. If you take the numbers of people reading online, the audience is not down too much. The real issue is advertising. The oldtime newspaper was really the only game in town for a lot of advertisers. They have many more choices now. The part that is really difficult is there are many competitors in the Digital Space , including the Biggest Companies like google and facebook that dont have their own news operations. But they can be effective for advertisers. To competedont have with just other news media. They have to compete with other outlets as well. Host just to give you the out ofe, the starledger new jersey cutting 160 seven jobs, including 40 news organizations. Competitive . Tay will we always have a presence of a local newspaper . New work and the other newspapers are a good example of a change. The kind of scope of the changes they are making is bigger than most. Over the years, we will see a gradual movement with fewer print readers and more web presence. More people devoted to breaking news throughout the day on the web. The print paper will become a second exercise where you put those things that already appeared on the web into newspaper format. Host rick edmonds with the Poynter Institute talking about local newspapers. Thanks for your time. Caller thank you very much. Host in light of what weve talked about, our first 45 minutes come of discussion about local newspapers. They are still relevant. 202 5853880 for the eastern and central time zones. 202 5853881 for the mountain and pacific time zones. Twitter,nt to share on http twitter. Com cspanwj. Lets start with paul in wisconsin. How are you . Caller im good. My paper is the postcrescent. I dont u subscribed to it anymore. When walker ran for governor, i got my paper one day and i saw a im a democrat and it ticked me off. How dare they be that biased. They have a page that says dumpe doyle. Host what did you like most about it . Caller i like to reading their commentss and their where people would write in. It was a good thing to take to work and read on my breaks. Coupons on lot of sunday. Doylethey did their dump thing for scott walker, that was the end for me. Host chris in wisconsin. I read the milwaukee journal sentinel. Ive gotten disappointed because it has gotten thinner over the years. I will read it every day because whatthe only place i get Governor Walker is doing. Its not on our local news. People should really know what he is doing. I do like it because i get more information than i do on the news programs on tv. Host you get it for the political reporting. Caller yes. Host mr. Edmunds talked about the shrinking new staff. Has that affected the political side . Caller i dont think so. Theyve been pretty good. They did back Governor Walker. I dont happen to like him. When he was running, the journal did back cam. Yet, they are accused constantly of being liberal. I like the information about what they are doing. Still get it in home on paper . Caller i read the paper at home. It comes to my door. Jed from florida. Good morning. Caller im from atlanta originally. I like to read the atlanta edge journal institution online. It was good when the snowstorm hit because i could keep in touch with my family. It is quite distracting sometimes because you have all the other tabs and stuff going on. Winstonsalem, north carolina. The salem journal host you subscribe to the paper and get it at home . Caller yes i do. I have always loved the. Ewspaper when i was i. Enjoy reading it you get more indepth than television. I dont have a computer. You read it, are there particular stories you look for right off the bat . Political stories . Caller i look at the headlines on the paper. Any article that really catches my eye, i read. I especially Pay Attention to the local news. Hats going on around i follow my sports teams. And i read the funnies. Audiencee the something you read this morning that you found interesting from the paper. Final four. Ade the , connecticut, kentucky and florida. My indians have won three games and lost one. The yankees finally won a game. If you are just joining us, the local newspaper and its relevance to you is our topic that we are taking on for our first 45 minutes. Youve heard people tell you about what their paper is and what they get from it. Some people canceling their subscriptions to it. Take on your local newspaper. Heres your chance to do so. For those in the eastern and central time zones. For those in the mountain and pacific time zones. And twitter and facebook and email available to u. S. Well. On workrs we focus stories about the economy with the Unemployment Rate coming out, which we will talk about in our next segment. The lead story of the Washington Post takes a look at the afghan elections starting today. Go for new leadership there. Security being a concern. The pages of the New York Times, story taking a look at this weeks decision from the Supreme Court on campaign finances. Also taking a look at the middle east and secretary of state kerry. We will read the stories in depth in just a little bit every want to hear from you about your local paper and your experience with it. In clinton, massachusetts. Good morning. Caller hello. I have been getting the telegram since ive been here. They have an awful lot of interesting news. I could always refer to it. It doesnt reiterate i have to shut off the Television News in the morning because it just comes back with the same thing over and over again. I can peacefully read the paper and get my information and if im curious i can follow it further. And a very trustworthy one it hits all the local area around here and we get a large amount of local and national news. It is not as thick as it use to be. Host if youre waiting on line or on the phone to talk to us, if you wouldnt mind turning down your television as you wait, that would cut back on the feedback. Michael up next. Yoconnecticut. Whats your paper . Caller the herald. I work for the herald, full disclosure. The governor has been embroiled in another scandal. , myout local newspapers colleagues in the state reporting on it, you would not have known about it. Especially since the former show. Or had his own radio a local fox affiliate. They would not say much about it. He would not talk about it. It was local newspapers that really picked up the slack on that. Host are you a reporter for the herald . Caller an editor. Host tell us about how you may be heard our interviews at your paperhow does serve the community . Caller doing things important to your readers, specifically in your community. A lot of the big conglomerates are getting away from that and away from that. Thats why its an important question. On your facebook page, theres a lot of interest in that. Tell us about the reporting staff you have and the resources you have. Caller we have a tight staff. Money is always tight. We have a dedicated group of people who have their individual. Eats and have we have a Business Reporter and an education reporter. For people tot get to know their local reporters. They take pride in that. Host you have competition with a local newspaper . Caller from the hartford current. And from online sources. All see ourselves as comrades doing work host as far as the web, how does your newspaper incorporate that into your daytoday reporting habits . Caller we put everything we report. It gives people that extra vehicle to get their news. Host thats michael. A member of the staff at the new britain herald. Newspapers are they still relevant . 202 5853880 for the eastern and central time zones. 202 5853881 for the mountain and pacific time zones. A couple of stories from other papers this morning. The ones we focus on the New York Times looking at the topic of the drone strike. A judge weighing in on the nature of drone strikes. A federal official friday dismissed a lawsuit against a Top Obama Administration official. The court should hesitate before deciding to hold a Government Official personally responsible. The ruling suggests that court has no roles to play in the of killing citizens determined to be terrorists. If you go to the pages of the wall street journal, judge also weighing in on emails and requests for email information. In light of the stories you heard about information gathering. In the past year, u. S. Matters s. Magistrate judges have rejected or modified a number of warrants to search peoples emails. At issue is the justice departments process of obtaining electronic information from the account of a person under investigation and using to siftmes and keywords through it in hopes of finding evidence o of wrongdoing. Couple o tell us a bit about it. Good morning. Largo, florida. I love cspan. Its a daily ritual. Read the Tampa Tribune and the wall street journal because i could get an entire mix of news. Now, the saint pete times has taken over the tampa times. Its the only paper in the area. It is so leftleaning you cant get anything without bias. Im left with only the wall street journal. Thats a shame because i enjoy reading the paper. Say it is you leftleaning, is that the editorials or the nature of reporting that you sense . Caller especially the national news. Even when there is an election, a local election, they are biased to the left. Theres nothing else to say about it. Would mr. Jolly was running, i could not do it. I could not read it. Host do you get a sense that you are losing out on whats happening locally . Caller yes. Tv stationexcellent for local news. They do a beautiful job. Im really not a tv watcher except for cspan. I just like to read. So its a shame. Host nadine from florida. Twitter you may share those thoughts. You may have different thoughts as well. Up next, connecticut. Hi there. What is your paper . Caller we have the great which greenwich times. Local information. A bit here and there. Very minor on whats going on in the world. From the New York Times, more extensive information about whats going on. That seems to be lacking the most is the information they are providing regarding the insurance debacle thats going on. Host as far as the grant which greenwich times, you receive it at home . Caller we pick it up. Host would you continue to read and . It . Host if you really want information, you have to go to the New York Times. We live at the border of connecticut and new york. Its like the tristate area. You really want information, youre not going to get it from your local tv station because they will talk about a dog floating on ice. If you want to get any information regarding anything going on within government, insurance, anything else within the world, you either have to go to a larger papers such as the New York Times or something such as your show or even bbc. Host do you receive the greenwich times by subscription . Caller no. Host how much does it cost for a daily edition . Caller one dollar. Host alfred from frederick, maryland. I grew up reading the miami herald. My grandparents raised me. They were serial readers. They would get the paper every day on sunday. It was the funnies and the local types of things. She mentioned the dog floating on water. Those were my favorite stories when i was a kid. I still read the herald from maryland because it covers miami things, which i pay some attention to. Read than watch television most of the time. Host you read for specific stories . I enjoyed the locals. Crimes and local problem situations. Sometimes they are very outlandish. Host what about local opinion columnists . Carl i cant remember his last name. An africanamerican guy who button about hot topics. He wrote a lot about the tray by martin situation when that was going on. Trayvon martin situation when that was going on. Host the decision in ohio. In ohio. Looking at samesex marriage. Judge to order ohio to recognize samesex marriages from other states. Judge Timothy Black announced his intentions in cincinnati argumentsl that challenged the constitutionality of the marriage ban. The state will appeal blacks order when it comes out. They declined to comment further. Province to define marriage as between a man and a from the Washington Post this morning. A national paper. St. Petersburg, florida. Tell us about your paper. Caller i read the tampa bay times. I read it everyday. Host why do you go to it every day . Caller i like to know whats going on locally and around the world. Puzzles. Eir crossword they have one with the comics and one out of los angeles and another one. About what are the things you learned about this week . Caller we are constantly on this thing with power. Utilities are constantly going up. I love to read the small stories. The ones in very small squares. Those are stories you dont generally get on the local news. I just like to keep up with whats going on around the world. Host do you receive this by subscription . Caller we get it delivered every day. Host how much does that cost . Caller i dont know what the regular prices. Thelly, if you think standard price is too high, you can get it at a reduced rate. I paid 106 for the year. Host a previous caller was concerned that it was consolidated with another paper. Did it change its perspective or scope . Caller no. I was surprised she thought it was a liberal leaning paper. I see it as a very fair representation of both sides. Up next, we will hear from stanley from massachusetts. Caller thanks for this topic. I subscribe to the wall street journal. It is the most published paper in the world. I already went through todays. Host what about your local paper . Caller i get all the papers for free. The boston globe, the telegram gazette. I take them out of the bin when they overprint them. About the local papers. Which local papers do you read . Caller the telegram gazette is very good. From houserything to local trivia news. Host why is that important to you . Started a private Company Without any money called mb research. Everything, especially the economy, immigration and jobs. I have to scan for everything. I watch cspan in the mornings. Sometimes they circle articles and i can get a copy of it. Host you can take these large your local paper do a good job in making that relevant to local readers at home . Caller no. Much like washington. Believe that kind of thing. Jean in wyoming. Good morning. Read thisused to local newspaper it used to be called the rhone republican. Wyoming, it is a republican blackhole. I talked to one of the local reporters the other day. I called him up and said, you subscriptioned my to the daily times a few months back. Nothing is different. I used to take an interest in the local news. But there is really nothing going on. Its a republican blackhole. Im open to some republican ideas. But they seem to be relevant. They seem to be irrelevant. There is only around 8000 people that live your. There are more deer and antelope. We have a malaise. Host do you read the daily times everyday . Caller no. Host how do you stay on top of things locally . I talked to a couple of friends. I have a Small Business where i teach people music. The place is not musically oriented. It seems to be there is a network and you can find out about things by just talking with a few people and you find the same thing to be true. You can catch up on what you need to know. I dont really see that there is