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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
From: Borg, Stephen
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Subject: Leaving Hackensack/Moving to the field
We are in the midst of great change. Classified advertising revenues are falling fast. Some of it is due to the economy. But much of it is secular. Ads won’t return to the print newspapers even when the economy gets better. Getting this revenue back on the web dollar for dollar won’t happen. We are competing against non-news site for eyeballs, hence, ad dollars. Our competition is not merely other newspaper sites. Even for the ads we get, the web rates are much lower than those of print ads.
We must reinvent ourselves.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
 By Robert Torricelli on politickernj.com:
The Record announced yesterday that it was closing its Hackensack offices and "reinventing"itself. It was actually announcing its own death without the benefit of the Obit page.
It reminded me of the death of an aging uncle. You felt badly because of the loss but you remembered all of the times that he kicked the dog and yelled at the kids.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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Alfred Doblin, Editorial Columnist for The Record, recently responded to former Senator Robert Torricelli's "eulogy", writing in part:
"Being lectured on meanness by the likes of Bob Torricelli is akin to Amy Winehouse leading a rehab retreat for substance abusers."
Click here for the full article at NorthJersey.com.
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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From the Associated Press:
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) The Record of Bergen County plans to have most of its staff working as "mobile journalists" by January as the newspaper and its parent company plan to leave its flagship office in Hackensack, an executive said Monday.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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Bergen County has apparently contracted for web services from the same vendor that Dumont has contracted for web services. But moreover, it appears to be the exact same web notification services that Dumont contracted for. So is Dumont unnecessarily paying $18,000.00 to the same vendor that Bergen County is paying $150,000.00 . . . for the same services? Is this vendor getting paid twice, by Bergen County and Dumont, for essentially the same services? At a recent Mayor & Council executive session, Borough Administrator John Perkins specifically brought up the possibility of attempting to renogiate the Borough's contract for the C3 web site due to the fact that Bergen County had just entered into a contract with C3.
Here's the recent story from the Record:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergenpolitics/Bergen_hires_alert-system_vendor.html
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
By way of background on our town's costly new web site: before the Council ever actually voted on a resolution to award a contract for a new Borough web site - and, if one reviews the minutes, apparently without any analysis or discussion by our governing body of any alternatives or calling for any compteting or alternate bids or proposals - Mayor Matt McHale of Dumont was already announcing in his "State of the Borough" address given at the reorganization meeting on January 3:
"Initially in 2008, the Borough of Dumont will focus on . . . [i]mplementing a web-based interactive system known as C-3 that will allow the Borough to engage our residents through telecommunications such as text message, emails, and voicemails."
At no time in any of the meeting minutes was this "web-based interactive system" ever referred to as a "web site", until it was revealed on May 29 that Dumont taxpayers will now be paying $1,500.00 a month for what is basically a new web site with additional features and functionality . . . but still a web site.
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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Welcome to the first installment of the Dumont Online blog. This will be more or less an editorial section of the site regarding Borough goings-on. And the first topic is: in these tough economic times, should our town be quadrupling what it pays per month for a Borough web site?
Some residents have recently voiced objection to the Borough spending $46,000.00 for a streetscape study to be performed concerning the downtown business district. One could reasonably argue
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