FLOOD VICTIM TURNS TO SISTER NEWSPAPER : ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS HELPS FELLOW PUBLICATION GET TO STRICKEN READERS.Byline: Walker Lundy Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire This past week at the St. Paul Pioneer Press
The St. Paul Pioneer Press is a newspaper based in St. Paul, Minnesota, primarily serving the Twin Cities metropolitan area. has been historic - and one of the most rewarding and exciting we've ever had. Putting out a great newspaper is usually the most fun we have. Last week, we found out something even more rewarding - helping someone else put out a great paper. Here's the story: Around 9 p.m. April 19, three exhausted, bedraggled journalists from the Grand Forks Herald The Grand Forks Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper, begun in 1879, printed in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It is the primary daily paper for northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Its average daily circulation is 34,763 on Sundays and 31,524 on weekdays. - Chuck Kimmerle, Brad Dokken and Andy Braford - hurried into the Pioneer Press newsroom in downtown St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery with what they thought was an impossible assignment. They were to receive the Grand Forks Grand Forks, city (1990 pop. 49,425), seat of Grand Forks co., E N.Dak., at the confluence of the Red and the Red Lake rivers; inc. 1881. In a spring wheat, livestock, and farm area, the city has grain elevators, state-operated flour mills, and plants that process story of the century via computer from there and somehow produce a 12-page special edition of the Herald in time for it to be printed at the Pioneer Press, flown back to Grand Forks and distributed the next day. With their printing presses under 5 feet of water from the rampaging Red River and the newsroom evacuated, the Herald's best hope of publishing was the Pioneer Press, a sister Knight-Ridder newspaper. Alerted by an afternoon phone call April 19, our employees were scrambling to prepare to help the Herald. Editors were calling in extra staffers to help our new friends navigate our computer system and put the paper together. Our production folks were figuring out a way to sandwich more than 80,000 Heralds into the Pioneer Press' crowded April 20 Sunday press The Sunday Press was a weekend tabloid newspaper printed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1973 until 1989. It was Melbourne's second Sunday newspaper, the first being the Melbourne observer. run. Mustering the troops A Knight-Ridder veteran of Hurricane Andrew This article is about the 1992 hurricane; there was also a Tropical Storm Andrew during the 1986 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Andrew is the second-most-destructive hurricane in U.S. history, and the last of three Category 5 hurricanes that made U.S. jetted in from Miami to hastily arrange two airplanes and other logistics to get the papers back to Grand Forks for a Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
In Grand Forks, editors and reporters, many of whom had lost their homes earlier in the day to the floodwaters, gathered in a makeshift newsroom on the University of North Dakota North Dakota, state in the N central United States. It is bordered by Minnesota, across the Red River of the North (E), South Dakota (S), Montana (W), and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (N). campus to report the catastrophe that was happening around them. In a three-way conference call among Grand Forks, St. Paul and our corporate headquarters in Miami, the challenges multiplied as fast as we could think of them. With the phones out and people scattered by the flood, would enough Herald reporters, photographers and editors be able to find their way to the temporary newsroom at the university in time to produce the paper? How would they process their photos with no clean water available? In St. Paul, could we find a copy of the masthead mast·head n. 1. Nautical The top of a mast. 2. The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation. 3. so the paper we produced would actually look like the Herald? With most phones out, how would Grand Forks editors send the stories and photos to St. Paul? Could the Herald staffers at the university in Grand Forks and the two editors in the Pioneer Press newsroom master enough of the unfamiliar computer systems to make their hastily established deadline? Could we find enough Pioneer Press editors to help the Herald people here? And could we print the Heralds and still deliver the Pioneer Press on time? Was there somewhere for the airplanes carrying the papers to land near Grand Forks? How would we get the papers distributed to the readers once we got them there? And a hundred other questions. In the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of this terrible tragedy, I have to say it was simply inspiring to watch (and listen by phone to) these disparate and desperate people instantly come together as a team with one goal in mind. Eyes on the prize Eyes on the Prize is a 14-hour documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement that aired in two parts. Part one, six hours long, originally aired on PBS in early 1987 as Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). From the water-soaked journalists in Grand Forks to the Pioneer Press editors and pressmen to the corporate executives on the conference call from Miami, everyone was determined the people in Grand Forks were going to be reading the Herald the next morning, as our Monday headline said, ``come hell and high water.'' The Herald was delivered that Sunday morning, later and smaller than usual, but it was delivered. It contained a dozen pages of outstanding flood coverage with a page of national and international news and a page of sports, which were produced the previous night by Pioneer Press staffers. The paper carried a front-page letter to the Grand Forks community from Herald Publisher Mike Maidenberg and Editor Mike Jacobs Mike Jacobs can refer to:
After publishing the Sunday paper Sunday paper n → (periódico) dominical m Sunday paper n → journal m du dimanche from the university, the Herald staff had to flee again that afternoon, this time to Manvel, N.D., where they started working out of the high school journalism computer lab. The school has agreed to let them stay through the summer. Through it all, the Herald has not missed a day of publication. The press run last week got as high as three times the paper's normal 39,500 circulation. Hundreds of readers in the Twin Cities were clamoring for the Herald, so the Pioneer Press even made it available through Wednesday in some copies of our paper sold in local retail outlets. By midweek, more help was arriving both in Grand Forks and in St. Paul from Knight-Ridder's other newspapers. We needed relief pitchers to give some staffers a short break in the action, and our Knight-Ridder colleagues around the country responded without hesitation. Promise to rebuild By Thursday, the Herald was up to 16 pages and included important advertising information from banks and insurance companies for readers who face putting their lives back together. Knight-Ridder Chief Executive Officer Tony Ridder flew to Grand Forks on Tuesday to assure Herald employees their jobs would continue and the paper would rebuild at its downtown location. We still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how long we'll be hosting our new friends from Grand Forks. It may be months. While exhaustion is building, the spirit that began a week ago continues. Pioneer Press employees spontaneously raised more than $1,000 during the week to help their colleagues at the Herald. Some of it went for toys for the children of Herald employees who are stuck in shelters with nothing to do. The story is continuing testimony to the special spirit that resides in newspaper people. We sometimes can be a family of odd ducks: cranky crank·y 1 adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est 1. Having a bad disposition; peevish. 2. Having eccentric ways; odd. 3. as a rusty pump, suspicious as a mean watchdog and unmoved by most sentiment, pep talks and kind words. We work every day of the year around the clock and publish during floods and fires. In Grand Forks or St. Paul, we want to deliver our newspaper to our readers every morning no matter what. And last week, we did. |
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