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Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
Newspapers have a tough job; reporting the news everyday with accuracy and fairness is a difficult task, one that requires patience, long hours and oftentimes, compromise. It is impossible to make everyone happy, whether it’s on the editorial page, front page or sports page. Every reader has issues and events that are important to them, the kinds of things that matter in their families, schools, businesses and activities.
One purpose of newspapers is to provide the stories that readers actually want to read.
Those stories can come in the form of long feature stories or breaking news, even calendar events and obituaries. Not everyone turns to the same page in a newspaper; there are readers who comb every story from front to back and there are others who browse the headlines and photos, stopping to read further if something piques their interest.
At Leader Publications, we have recently and are continuing to implement improvements and changes in our coverage. We want to hear about the issues that matter to you. Do you have a concern about something going on in your neighborhood? Is there an upcoming event you believe could warrant coverage? Have you met someone you think has an interesting story to tell? Stories big and small are all vital to a newspaper – these are the stories that shape our lives and our communities.
We have a small but efficient staff at the Niles Daily Star, Dowagiac Daily News, Edwardsburg Argus and Cassopolis Vigilant.
Long-time sports editor Scott Novak tackles the enormous task of covering local high school and college athletics, ranging from girls’ high school volleyball to outdoors features to Notre Dame football. He does a great job and is an asset to our company and the Niles area. Sports stories are essential to any newspaper, and readers enjoy seeing their children’s photos, catching up on their alma mater’s team or learning about local people through human interest pieces.
Jessica Sieff joined our staff more than a year ago and is a story-producing machine. She has developed positive relationships within the community, covering education, government, crime and other stories, in addition to taking photos and helping with our e-newsletter.
Another long-time newsman, John Eby, staffs our Dowagiac office and produces a quality newspaper for his community. He has become a trusted figurehead in Dowagiac, and cares about the people and places that make his home a nice place to live.
Leader has other contributors – freelancers and columnists – who are vital to our news and sports coverage. All of our staff would love to hear your feedback and story ideas.
Another avenue to contribute your opinions is through letters to the editor. Letter topics vary from thank-yous to politically-minded issues. We encourage all readers to utilize this opportunity to get your message heard. Please include your full name, city of residence and contact information in case we have questions. We will print letters on most any topic, within reason. Racial, religious, gender and character defamation as well as foul language are not permitted.
Our contact information is available at the bottom of the editorial page and on our Web site. Please take advantage of what our newspapers have to offer.
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It would help if there was a Button for that page on the opinion page for that purpose, with a form for the required info
on the page of submision to log into a box for the submision.
Leader Publications had a guestbook reader forum that you
dropped in Your new format it had it’s regular arguments
of the Probuisness anti consumer posters and
the pro consumer anti buisness posters, but there also were
other great posters in the reader forum.
that was what it was actualy for
instead of Bein a twit or a facebook poster.
much faster and much less complicated.