Terry Cowgill

Oh, Albany!

With apologies to William Kennedy …

Sorry for the light blogging of late. I am at a newspaper conference in New York’s capital city and just haven’t had time to write anything. As I write this during a brief break in the action, there is a lot of talk here about the future of newspapers. It seems the future only looks bright for community papers like the LJ and its two other papers. I will post something on the conference later.

I’m going to be leaving the convention a little early so that I can get back to Salisbury by 5 p.m., when a reception starts at the Ragamont Inn to test the waters about starting an independent historical society for the town. Click here to read my preview story and here for the editorial that ran this week. I’d be interested to get your thoughts.

I’ll also post my take on the reception and let you know how it went in advance of Thursday’s print edition. After all, I ‘d better practice what they’re telling me to do here. Lots of these presenters are telling us that we need to think of ourselves less as weekly newspapers than as content providers who need to use the web to create more immediacy and usefulness for our audience. More later…