NEW YORK: A group of newspaper executives has launched a multipronged effort to promote the value of its medium in an increasingly hostile economic environment.
The group first met January 7 to discuss the effort, which has a primary goal of combating public perceptions that newspapers as organizations are dying, said Randy Siegel, president and publisher of Parade Publications. It is deploying print and online PSAs, Op-Eds, and an editorial Web site.
“All of us completely reject the notion that newspapers ...