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emu Sommer A message from Debby Krenek
From: —ND-Communication office
To: ND-Communication Office
Date: 8/11/2010 11:29 AM
Subject: A message from Debby Krenek
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Dear colleagues,
Newsday's newsroom is hiring!
Ina big step forward on boosting out local coverage, during the next six months we will hire
34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital teams, and edd 2,600 pages of adclitionel
news and opinion to our newspaper annually, I'm very excited to announce that we are
making *his significant investment in people and pages fo provide more and stronger
coverage for Long Islanders.
Many initiatives will increase town and local coverage in print and provide our online audience
with more updates and faster coverage of breaking news around the clock. They include:
* Adding to the number of town reporters
Doubling the number of Long Island news pages in Newsday each day
+ Upping the number of regional zoned editions of Sunday's LI Life to provide more
localized town news and information
«Hiring community journalists who will hit Long Island's streets in search of local
features and personalities that define each community as we launch hundreds of
nyper-local pages later this month
+ Gathering and building even more databases to become the definitive online source of
local data for L! communities
+ Expanding our “community watchdog” role by increasing local investigations and
enterprise reporting staff to dig into key topics that matter most to Long Istandars
+ Cross-training staff to enable them te cover news in both text and video
We also plan to expand our business and feature sections by:
+» Adding space to our daily business section, with more local, useful information for and
about the Long Ieland business community
» Introducing 2 dally e-malted business newsletter
= Boosting pages in LI Life to include a weekend Explore Li component for planning the
week ahead
+ Creating a weekly in-depth profile story that will highlight the life, lifestyles and trends
of Long Islanders
The Opinion section will grow as the editorial board under Rita Cioll's leadership adds thrae
new positions and increases its Weekly space in the newspaper by nearly 80 percent. This
section will offer a full page of readers’ letters every weekday, along with more opinion pieces
from across Long Island and beyond, representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints.
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In sum, we will add 37 people to our teams as part of aur commitment to be the indispensable
source of news and information for Long Island.
if you know journalists interested in applying for these positions, please have them send their
resume and clips to maryann.skinner@newsday.com.
\'m proud that Newsday is making this major investment and | hope yau will be, too.
Sincerely,
Debby Krenek
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