12.01.2003
Dallas publisher says young people want their news bright and snappy
NYTIMES: "In interviews this fall, Mr. Tanner asked several hundred young people in the Dallas area to describe their dream newspaper. Taken collectively, they imagined a publication with big, bright photographs and snappy articles that focused heavily on subjects like entertainment, all wrapped in a package so thin that it could be scanned in the time it took to ride an elevator. And because there was so much content available on the Internet, they told Mr. Tanner, they were not inclined to pay for such a publication..."
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RELATED: Howard Kurtz shows that CNN is drawing some younger viewers. "'Anderson Cooper 360' has averaged 474,000 viewers in recent weeks. That's down 28 percent from CNN programming a year ago and well behind the 1.3 million viewers for Fox News's Shepard Smith, though ahead of MSNBC's Chris Matthews. But CNN executives point to a 15 percent rise in the coveted 18-to-49 age group..."
"Little wonder, then, that CNN picked Cooper to moderate last month's 'Rock the Vote' presidential debate, which he began by playing back many of the candidates' sound bites to try to deter them from canned rhetoric. 'I was really pleased with it,' he says of the debate, while conceding it was 'unfortunate' that a CNN producer planted the much-ridiculed 'Macs or PCs?' question with a college student..."
SEE ALSO: Violence against world's journos largely hidden from U.S. public.
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RELATED: Howard Kurtz shows that CNN is drawing some younger viewers. "'Anderson Cooper 360' has averaged 474,000 viewers in recent weeks. That's down 28 percent from CNN programming a year ago and well behind the 1.3 million viewers for Fox News's Shepard Smith, though ahead of MSNBC's Chris Matthews. But CNN executives point to a 15 percent rise in the coveted 18-to-49 age group..."
"Little wonder, then, that CNN picked Cooper to moderate last month's 'Rock the Vote' presidential debate, which he began by playing back many of the candidates' sound bites to try to deter them from canned rhetoric. 'I was really pleased with it,' he says of the debate, while conceding it was 'unfortunate' that a CNN producer planted the much-ridiculed 'Macs or PCs?' question with a college student..."
SEE ALSO: Violence against world's journos largely hidden from U.S. public.
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