Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHackensack Chronicle, like The Record a publication of North Jersey Media Group, and The County Seat completely missed the story of the arrest of Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa. These weeklies proved to be weaklies.
The news broke online Thursday night, apparently too late for the Chronicle, which was dated Friday, April 30. The Capitol Seat, published and edited by Zisa relatives, was dated Saturday, May 1.
The NJMG weekly often is found inside The Record of Woodland Park on Fridays -- as if the daily newspaper is offering the weekly in place of its own poor coverage of Hackensack, where The Record was founded in 1895 and where it prospered for more than 110 years.
This likely is a reflection of the "responsible journalism" practiced by NJMG and the Borg family from their Garret Mountain redoubt.
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The large negative of being owned by a small company with a daily is that the deadlines for the weekly products are often days in advance of the date on the paper. A lot of stories get missed by the print product and are only on the web site - which is poorly designed and hard-to-navigate.
ReplyDeleteIf you work in a weekly newspaper environment, time seems to go by much quicker, doesn't it?