Converged journalism and quality: A case study of the Tampa Tribune news stories

Convergence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 73-91

  Huang, Edgar ^a   Rademakers, Lisa ^b   Fayemiwo, Moshood A ^b   Dunlap, Lillian ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 61049210760     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485650401000407     Document Type: Article

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32. This study can be found at http://www.readership.org/consumers/building/ imperatives/main.htm. Gil Thelen, the then editor of The Tampa Tribune said: 'We're using the study in a number of ways: (1) Its principles underpin our redesign; (2) It's a basis for the work of the company-wide readership taskforce, one of the company's five strategic priorities for 2002; (3) We're incorporating the recommendations into our daily scorecards for sections of the Tribune' (quoted from 'The impact of Impact: How newspapers are putting the study to work' by the Readership Institute, which can be also at the URL in this endnote).