The Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Journal Register both named new publishers last week. The Tribune named Michael Klingensmith, who has worked for Time, Inc. for 30 years. The Journal Register hired John Paton, the head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia.

Jeff Jarvis interviews Paton, and Cathy Wurzer of Minnesota Public Radio interviews Klingensmith.

While Paton talks about investing in digital media, training journalists to do multimedia, partnering with outside digital media brands and bloggers, Klingensmith talks about portals, the return of advertising revenue, and the long future of his two-paper market.

Place your bets.

Anthony Hecht is The Stranger's Chief Technology Officer. He owns no monkeys.

5 replies on “New vs. Old”

  1. Both news outlets novelize into one:
    The Twin Shitty Spectacle!
    with a nod to St. Paul and its blinding light conversion enroute to Damascus. Now that would be brilliant, literally blinding light, illuminati, have the print edition on Brillo maxi pads, for those tough stains, and a wire-brush to thoroughly do your prostate exam. Odds? 91-1

    For “better” odds. go to http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

  2. Booooooooring.

    You guys in media still don’t get it.

    We want lurid scandal pics and vids and helpful hints, plus pages and pages of funny comics.

    The rest of it is mostly for wrapping fish.

    Dead fish.

  3. Will, I think that’s the third time you’ve made that fish joke. It wasn’t funny the first time.

    Actually none of your jokes are funny any of the times.

    Will, please stop posting.

  4. Hrm. A company whose biggest offering in a conglomerate of small-market English and Spanish rags is the New Haven Register, sold alongside the New York Times — but only in New Haven — or a big paper owned by a big conglomerate, which once had a formidable competitor across town, which focusses on one major market on which its coverage for the last century and change stayed consistent?

    Gosh, I dunno. The Strangler?

  5. Oh yes: given how painfully slow the Journal Register’s corporate site refreshed, Paton’s on the money by investing further in multimedia infrastructure.

    The PiPress stopped being a good paper about the time it stopped having an autonomous portal online.

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