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We’ve all noticed the changes, some of them quite severe, to the Ventura County Star in the past 6 months or so. Sections cut, thinner editions overall and to their credit, a reorganized Web site with a lot of fat trimmed away. But leaner, it seams has also turned meaner, and as an editor for [...]
It’s been one year since I returned to VCReporter to reprise my role as arts editor. It’s a labor of love and I’d be loath to find a more perfect fit. I feel I’ve accomplished much of what I hoped to, yet there’s so much I wish I could do with the section (art & [...]
We just put our annual Best Of Ventura County issue to bed after a long but mostly painless labor (depending on who you talk to.) This was not the first time I’ve been involved with the issue but it was my introduction to the back-end/inner workings of the voting process.
I am currently working on an [...]
Since I re-entered the VCReporter fold 8 (wow) months ago, I’ve been feeling the pinch of too little space to adequately cover the vast number of events and interesting people in the county.
So.. I’ve been mulling different ways to do more with less, make the most of my limited real estate, looking at how other [...]
I hate to say it but the continuing failure of the newspaper industry is almost, almost justifiable when its figureheads show their ignorance of new media technologies, publicly no less. Google’s CEO Eric E. Schmidt spoke at a newspaper convention recently, and was forced to answer uninformed questions from newspaper executives about [...]
From the time I was about 12 until my early -mid ’20s, every Sunday morning (whether morning was at 8 a.m or 3 p.m.) I would furiously flip through the delicious layers of the Los Angeles Times to find the Calendar section.
Back then it was all about music critics Robert Hilburn (loved and hated by [...]
