Ken Paulsen
Editor of USA Today.
It was a great learning experience to have Ken Paulsen through the teleconference. It was interesting to learns some facts about the USA Today.
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Started in 1982
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It was originally dubbed the McPaper
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It was believed as not serious journalism
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Wanted to cver things that their readers were interested in.
Paulsen also talked about some qualities of most journalists
- Try to hide their biases
- They get into the business for the right reasons.
- They try to get as much information as possible. The more you have the better.
Ken Paulsen also talked about how USA Today wanted be in the middle Hes tried to reduce the amount of times anonymous source is used. He has done so by 75 percent.
He did not seem to interested in the online portion of the USA Today and focused more on the print side. It was an informative telececonference.