Editors offer advice to newspapers: Favre, Overholser address the industry's problems

Newspaper industry problems have been examined by editors Gregory Favre, from the Sacramento Bee, and Geneva Overholser, former Des Moines Register editor. Favre believes that newspapers should focus more on content and traditional values that fall under the newspapers' watchdog role. Overholse...

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Published in:Editor & publisher 1995-06, Vol.128 (22), p.13
Main Author: Stein, M.L
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethical aspects
Newspaper publishing
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Summary:Newspaper industry problems have been examined by editors Gregory Favre, from the Sacramento Bee, and Geneva Overholser, former Des Moines Register editor. Favre believes that newspapers should focus more on content and traditional values that fall under the newspapers' watchdog role. Overholser believes that the public no longer views newspapers as a guiding force in their lives. Newspapers have also succumbed to giving advertisers larger profits.
ISSN:0013-094X