Probably most readers of this newspaper caught the story on Tuesday's front page, if they hadn't seen it online earlier or simply heard it on the street. Rick Emanuel is heading to Glens Falls to be publisher of the daily newspaper over there, after 10 years as publisher of The Citizen.
I would be remiss if I didn't devote one of my columns to the impact Rick has had on The Citizen and this community, but I'm going to hold off for a week on that because the column I was planning to write prior to this week's announcement has some time-sensitive elements.
Knowing Rick, he would want me to hold off on my column about him if there was one that needed to get in first about matters dealing directly with reader services.
The specific reader service I want to touch upon is letters to the editor, particularly the policy pertaining to elections.
The most important point I want to highlight is the deadline policy we have in place for letters related to local, state and national campaigns. For many years, we've required those types of letters to be received a week prior to Election Day. For this year's election, that puts the deadline at Oct. 28.
We will run all letters that come in by that deadline as long as they adhere to our general letters policy. Anything that comes in after that date, though, likely will not run.
We need to have this kind of deadline in order to ensure we have enough space in our pages to accommodate as many letters as possible. It's sort of the same premise as requiring reservations for a wedding or banquet. We need to have some type of advance notice as to how many we need to get in.
The key points to remember regarding the rest of the letters policy are these: letters must be 300 words or less, and we will publish only one letter per individual writer within a seven-day period. So if you have a couple of candidates you'd like to support in writing in the newspaper, get them in ASAP or perhaps endorse two people within the same letter.
A few astute readers might be wondering about the column I wrote a few weeks ago asking for feedback on the general letters policy itself. I did get some very insightful thoughts from readers, and we will be making some changes in the near future based on those.
We also thought it would be best to wait until after election season because we don't want the timing of any letters policy change to come across as favoring any campaigns.
One other bit of housekeeping for readers of our Sunday comics section: You may have heard that the Opus strip is retiring. We've just learned that two strips will actually replace it. The Nov. 9 edition will begin carrying a strip called Pearls Before Swine and another called Candorville. I hope they bring you just as much entertainment.
Executive editor Jeremy Boyer's columns appear Tuesdays in
The Citizen and he can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 231 or jeremy.boyer@lee.net
Knowing Rick, he would want me to hold off on my column about him if there was one that needed to get in first about matters dealing directly with reader services.
The specific reader service I want to touch upon is letters to the editor, particularly the policy pertaining to elections.
The most important point I want to highlight is the deadline policy we have in place for letters related to local, state and national campaigns. For many years, we've required those types of letters to be received a week prior to Election Day. For this year's election, that puts the deadline at Oct. 28.
We will run all letters that come in by that deadline as long as they adhere to our general letters policy. Anything that comes in after that date, though, likely will not run.
We need to have this kind of deadline in order to ensure we have enough space in our pages to accommodate as many letters as possible. It's sort of the same premise as requiring reservations for a wedding or banquet. We need to have some type of advance notice as to how many we need to get in.
The key points to remember regarding the rest of the letters policy are these: letters must be 300 words or less, and we will publish only one letter per individual writer within a seven-day period. So if you have a couple of candidates you'd like to support in writing in the newspaper, get them in ASAP or perhaps endorse two people within the same letter.
A few astute readers might be wondering about the column I wrote a few weeks ago asking for feedback on the general letters policy itself. I did get some very insightful thoughts from readers, and we will be making some changes in the near future based on those.
We also thought it would be best to wait until after election season because we don't want the timing of any letters policy change to come across as favoring any campaigns.
One other bit of housekeeping for readers of our Sunday comics section: You may have heard that the Opus strip is retiring. We've just learned that two strips will actually replace it. The Nov. 9 edition will begin carrying a strip called Pearls Before Swine and another called Candorville. I hope they bring you just as much entertainment.
Executive editor Jeremy Boyer's columns appear Tuesdays in
The Citizen and he can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 231 or jeremy.boyer@lee.net
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