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Subject: Newsday’s newsroom is
hiring!
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Newsday’s newsroom is
hiring!
In a big step forward on boosting our local coverage, during the
next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital
teams, and add 2,600 pages of additional news and opinion to our newspaper
annually. I’m very excited to announce that we are making this significant
investment in people and pages to 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
hyper-local pages later this
month
· Gathering and building
even more databases to become the definitive online source of local data for LI
communities
· Expanding our
“community watchdog” role by increasing local investigations and enterprise
reporting staff to dig into key topics that matter most to Long
Islanders
· Cross-training
staff to enable them to 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
Island business community
·
Introducing a daily e-mailed 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 Ciolli’s leadership adds three 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.
In
sum, we will add 37 people to our teams as part of our commitment to be the
indispensable source of news and information for Long Island.
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