Could former owner save Out of Town News?

By adamg on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 3:48pm

Wicked Local Cambridge reports that Sheldon Cohen, who sold the Harvard Square landmark to that out-of-town concern that now wants to shut it down, wants it back:

... "To see this being changed breaks my heart," he told the City Council Monday night. "I'm thinking of coming back. This is an opportunity to bring some life back to the square." ...

Hudson News currently rents the building from the city. Last month, it announced plans to vacate the premises.

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Sheldon Cohen

By Ron Newman on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 10:42pm.

I'd love to see him return, but he'll need to handle his finances better this time than he did in 1994, forcing him to sell it to Hudson News.

An idea

By adamg on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 10:47pm.

He could team up with the Toscanini's guy.

Does the Crimson have editorial staff?

By stephencaldwell on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 11:04pm.

Because that first article is riddled with typographical errors. It's definitely enough to be distracting, though it very well could have been from when they transcribed it to the internets.

Blame Indian monks?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 11:28pm.

The Crimson to Use Labor in Third World

C. Matthew MacInnis, a Harvard senior and the Crimson's president, announced yesterday [July 23, 2001] that he has signed a $45,000 contract to have about two-dozen Cambodian workers typeset the 19th century editions of the Crimson. Each Cambodian is paid about 40 cents an hour, a slight raise over the minimum-wage garment factory jobs they held before. A group of monks in India is typesetting the 20th century portion of the project.

What they couldnt find any

By ShadyMilkMan on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 8:13am.

What they couldnt find any local Harvard interns willing to do some of this stuff for free?

Training for the modern newsroom

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 9:18am.

MS Word autocorrection functions have replaced copy editors ... everybody does their own proofreading and fact checks their own work on the web.

If they have time ... Harvard students have class work, modern reporters have numerous deadlines.

Ha

By adamg on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 9:26am.

Word autocorrection. Ha. Sorry, I mean: HA!

I work with both Word and actual living, breathing copy editors.

Word sucks.
Copy editors do more than just fix typos. Any reporter will tell you (sometimes not even under the influence of a belt or two) that copy editors have saved their bacon more than once.