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segmmm tamer A 055098 from Debby Krenek
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Doster 11/010 1129 AM
‘Subject: A message fom Deby Krenek
Dear colleagues,
Newatey’s newsrooms hiingt
tn a bla step forward on boosting ourlooal coverage, during the next sic months we wil hire
‘54 new journalists for aur newsroom and digital teams, and edd 2,600 pages of additonal
revs and opinion to our Newspaper annual 'm very excited to announce that we are
‘making ths signiicant investment in people and pages te provide more and stronger
Coverage for Long Islanders.
Many intatives wil inrease town and local coverage in print and provide eur ening sudlenco
(ilk more updates and faster Coverage of breaking news around the clock. They includ
+ Adcing tothe number of town reporters
Doubling tne number of Long isiand news pages in Newsday each day
2 Gpping the nuiiber of regional zoned editions of Sunday's LI Life t provide more
localized town news and information
+ Hring community journalists who will ht Long Istanes streets In search of ocal
features and personales thal define each community a8 we launch hundreds of
hyperocal pages later this month
+ Gathering and bulding even more databases to become the definitive online source of
local data fr communi
‘+ Expancing our “community watchdog" role by increasing local investigations and
enterprise reporting staff to dg into key tops tnat mattar most to Long Islanders
‘+ Crosstraining staff o enable them to cover nows in both text and video
\We algo plan to expand cur business and feature sections by:
1+ Adding space to our dally business section, wth more local, useful information for anc
bout the Long Island business cornmunity|
+ Introducing a daly e-mailed business newsletter
1 Boosting pages in Life to include a weekend Explore L component for planning the
woek ahead
1+ Creating a weeWy in-dept profile story that wl highligh the Me, Hfetyles and tends
coFlLong Islanders
‘The Opinion section wit grow as the editorial board under Rita Cialfs leadership adds three
new posions end inereases iis weekly space i the newspaper by nay 80 percent. This
Section wil offer @ ful page of readers letters every weekday, along with more opinion pieces
‘rom acroas Long Island and beyond, representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints
Eeoustsya0ne 12:29 Fae eecarove
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In sum, we will add 37 paople to our teams 2s part of our commitment to be the indispensable
‘Sourea of news and information for Long Isic.
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Im prous that Newsday is making thls major iwastment ard | hope you wil be, too,
Sincerely,
Debby Krenek
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