The visit to Bangor Newspaper

My tour to Bangor Daily News

 

My visit to Bangor Daily News paper, which is one of leading media in Bangor town, Maine served a big deal of what I like most, which is to learn from others’ experience.

I was particularly concerned on how the media (Bangor) interact with their audience by allowing them to post their comments on website, challenge the paper and provide some constructive suggestions for development and improvement of products.

I was particularly moved by the fact that Government do not interfere in editorial decisions of media outlets be it owned by individuals, organizations or public institutions.

Bangor Daily New is a daily newspaper in Bangor, Maine, covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events, which published six day a week in Monday through Saturday.

According to BDN website the Circulation is 55,627 copies per day as well as owned by family

Apart from the freedom they enjoy, and public interaction the visit to the family owned paper exposed me to new experiences on supervision and management of the media.

For instance to attendance of day’s project meeting and postmortem by all staff and supervisors including the Managing Editor was an eye opener to how the media personnel back home could cooperate together to develop better products.  

I was interested to learn how the editors are prepared to come for the morning meeting whereby they came with tip offs for the entire newspaper starting with splash to the last page.

The editors were getting along together in discussion, which implies that have a focused goal of bringing up the best product the next morning.

The development of online products are attributable to time factor such that most people have no time to read the actual print product.

As such BDN has come up with the number of different online products to cater for customer’s needs.

Some of the products according to Josh Tuttle, the online editor are alert message on cell phones, face book, twitter and a slot for readers’ comments

Josh said nothing change in this journalism for the reason that public will gather information with no different along with exclusively similar to any media.

Its seems that now we are going to move from printing journalism to online especially in the advancing technology movement.

Nine Tanzanian journalists are in Maine University for exchange for four weeks sharing ideas with and experience with the Journalist of US the project that sponsored by USAID and UMAINE.

 

Joyce   R.  Magoti,

Kulikoni &Thisday Newspapers ,

Media Solution Company Ltd,

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.