Word: kovach
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Fellows take a leave of absence from careers in journalism to study at Harvard for a year, Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
...great worry, according to Bill Kovach, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor who heads the Nieman Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is that "newspapers are trying to save money in the newsrooms, but they are undercutting the quality of their news reports. It's taking the life right out of them." The San Francisco Examiner, for instance, still runs foreign news, but without a single overseas correspondent on staff. Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor...
...papers that are succeeding in these difficult times are those that have targeted an easily definable market or figured out ways to extend their brand name. USA Today, for instance, is what Kovach calls a great "second read" for the business traveler and for the many Americans displaced from their hometowns. "If you have moved from Dallas to Washington, you can't read about the Dallas Cowboys in the Washington Post," says Curley, "but you can get some of it in USA Today...
...lands. The Dayton accord is in essence a temporary cease-fire. It can be made permanent, provided the international community firmly declares that the partition line between the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation will be treated as an international border in case of armed incursions. YUGO KOVACH Twickenham, England...
...evening's discussion proved stimulating enough that moderator Kovach proposed a marketing idea even Galbraith could appreciate...