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Weekday print circulation plunges at top 25 newspapers
Back on the slippery slope of newspaper circulation… Alan D. Mutter, a former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, said in his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, that weekday print circulation (just print,...
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The incredibly shrinking Sam Mellinger…Also, national columnists Dowd and...
One of the most interesting and talented public officials I covered during my years at The Star was William L. Kimsey, who was Jackson County revenue director for several years in the mid-1970s. Kimsey...
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News you need to know but won’t get from our hometown newspaper
While we wait for the Royals to resume their “win-now” season, there’s a lot of news to distract us. I’m talking about news that all of us need to know, but which we’re not getting from The Star...
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The newspaper as entertainment: It’s all right there in black and white
Here’s a truism from Newspaper Reading 101….from which I took a “withdrew passing” grade: If you read the paper with a close eye and an open mind, you will almost always stumble upon something that...
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Last words of a killer: “Rock and roll me when I’m dead…That’s all, warden.”
How many of us get to have our last words transcribed and published? No, not many. An intriguing exception are the men — and occasional woman — executed in the state of Texas. (I say “state of” because...
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Pass the stuffing, please, and let’s get down on our knees and give thanks
Thanksgiving is still four months away, but today I’m in an appreciative mood. Let me cite just three “blessings” that recent news stories have impressed upon me. :: I am grateful that…Kansas City is...
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Route 66…George Brett…Caroline Kennedy…Manic Pixie Dream Girls
God dang there were some good stories in my two favorite papers the last couple of days. Good stories get me excited…Can you tell? First, The Star… :: Feature writer Don Bradley had an outstanding...
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The Star’s George Brett series: Ambitious online packaging
The Star, you might have noticed, has embarked this week on something the paper has never done before, to the best of my knowledge — run a series of stories on the Web site before running the entire...
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Not for sale, but if it were…
Because you have been such supportive and loyal readers, today I’m going to give you a chance to make some money. There’s a golden egg out there, and I want all my friends — personal and digital — to...
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Ooops!
It’s a big mess here at JimmyCsays this morning. At midnight, I launched a grandiose post proclaiming a big jump in circulation for The Kansas City Star in a new circulation report. Problem is I was...
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