{"id":982,"date":"2006-05-03T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=982"},"modified":"2006-05-03T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T21:23:00","slug":"paper-uses-money-to-train-future-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/paper-uses-money-to-train-future-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper uses money to train future journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5373738\">All Things Considered<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At many newspapers, the top priority is how best to prop up revenues. But the family that owns The Anniston Star in Alabama is quietly planning to devote the paper&#8217;s profits to training new generations of reporters.<br \/>\nThe Star is a small daily that packs an outsized punch, situated in a town west of Atlanta. The paper has a circulation of just 27,000. But under the leadership of publisher Harry Brandt Ayers, it fights above its weight class. It campaigned for racial desegregation at a time when much of Alabama was brawling to keep it out, and it has uncovered pollution and government corruption. The newspaper has maintained a staff that is twice as large as what industry consultants recommend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is the duty of a newspaper to become the attorney for the most defenseless among its subscribers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8216;Anniston Star&#8217; philosophy, Col Harry M. Ayers<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/ayers200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/ayers200.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered: At many newspapers, the top priority is how best to prop up revenues. But the family that owns The Anniston Star in Alabama is quietly planning to devote the paper&#8217;s profits to training new generations of reporters. The Star is a small daily that packs an outsized punch, situated in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/paper-uses-money-to-train-future-journalists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paper uses money to train future journalists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}