Last Updated: April 27, 1999
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RESTON, Va — The American Society of Newspaper Editors has published
a handbook In an effort to help newsrooms answer the perennial questions,
“What is local news and how does one best cover it?”
“The Local News Handbook,” put together by ASNE’s 1998-99 Readership
Issues Committee will help newsrooms restore the relationship between a
reader and his or her local newspaper editor.
“By listening as our neighbors talk — through scholars and researchers
— about what is essential to them, we can build our journalism,” noted
Frank Denton, chair of the Readership Issues Committee and editor of the
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison.
The handbook takes ideas from inside and outside newspapers to tackle
the underlying question and includes essays from editors from around the
nation.
The 210-page handbook is available from ASNE for $15. Send a check made
out to the ASNE Foundation to Publications Fulfillment, 11690B Sunrise
Valley Drive, Reston VA 20191-1409. http://www.asne.org/kiosk/publist.htm
Consult this link for more information.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors, with nearly 900 members,
is an organization of the main editors of daily newspapers in the Americas.
Founded in 1922, ASNE’s principal purpose is to serve as a medium for exchange
of ideas and professional growth and development of its members. The Society
headquarters is outside Washington, D.C.
