We Were Print

Most employees at Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., didn’t know Donna Coven. She wasn’t a featured columnist. She wasn’t a swashbuckling photographer. She wasn’t even the person who pushed the Big Button that started the presses rolling.
But her job was important to all of those folks.
Donna Coven was the payroll supervisor
Donna, who started at The Post [...]

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Warning: graphic images ahead

Unfortunate ad placement is a fact of life. I’m sure the page designer would like to claw back this one showing a person with a computer strapped to his back, falling though the air like a parachute jumper. The ad happened to run on Sept. 17, 2001, next to a story about [...]

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It was just about this time last year when The Palm Beach Post, which had some of the best reproduction of any paper in the country going back to the late 60s, cranked out its last paper.
Even though I had taken an early retirement buyout, I wanted to spend some time with the men and [...]

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Lisa Rab, reporter for the New Times – Broward-Palm Beach edition – has a media story this week titled The Rise and Fall of South Florida’s Daily Newspapers.
Rab interviews several journalists who took the “voluntary” buyouts.
You can read it through this link.
 Those in the business – and now out of it – will recognize most of the names, [...]

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Former short-time Palm Beach Post publisher Alex Taylor left behind a catch-phrase created by a reader that ran during his tenure under the mast:
“The Home Page of Paradise” – as seen below, on Oct. 21, its last day in print.
 

Well, Taylor is gone and they’re now still without a publisher — and, without Paradise. Here’s the [...]

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