Paul Barrett
Sports Editor at Seattle Times
Executive Vice President and Publisher at The News-Gazette (Champaign, IL)
Sports editor at The Seattle Times. @MurrowCollege grad. First vice president, @APSE_sportmedia.
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2 months ago |
news-gazette.com | Paul Barrett
A year ago, we brought back the Monday printed newspaper to offset the combining our Sunday and Saturday editions. The latter part of that experiment has been successful. Our Weekend Editions have had, in some cases, 20 percent more pages and our advertisers like the extended shelf life. Many readers have told us they love longer features and more time to read them. The Monday part of that experiment, however, has not gone well.
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2 months ago |
news-gazette.com | Paul Barrett
To subscribe, click here. To submit a letter to the editor, click here. To pitch a ‘My Turn’ guest column, email [email protected]. I’d like to think that everyone, regardless of their lot in life, has memories of their “trip of a lifetime.”For me, it was an invitation by my boss at the time, Jerry Strader, to join him on a trip to a small island in Georgian Bay in Lake Huron in Canada.
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2 months ago |
news-gazette.com | Paul Barrett
To subscribe, click here. To submit a letter to the editor, click here. To pitch a ‘My Turn’ guest column, email [email protected]. Whether it was a family name or he was named after the movie star, the given name John Wayne was incredibly fortuitous. John Wayne Bohl was indeed a “man’s man,” and I was incredibly lucky to have known him. He died this week six years ago in his hometown of Meridian, Miss.
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Mar 4, 2025 |
news-gazette.com | Paul Barrett
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Feb 25, 2025 |
news-gazette.com | Paul Barrett
In 1996, I was promoted to regional manager and publisher at the Meridian (Miss.) Star. We were owned by American Publishing Company, and our flagship paper was the Chicago Sun-Times. Our president and publisher of the Sun-Times was Jerry Strader. At one time, he had been publisher at The Star. On my first day, he called me to wish me luck and tell me about a guy who was going to be a real thorn in my side — Eddie Smith.
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