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We're going to have to find out how to compensate for that loss. Both of them were extremely productive, and we're going confront that in a number of areas, not just Washington.
"Anytime you have a reporter who produces a lot of good stories and then leaves, you lose all of those stories. Willse says he wasn't eager to reduce coverage of Washington, where the Star-Ledger has had two reporters throughout his 13-year tenure at the paper.
But pharmaceuticals is a big local industry, so in a sense it's regional reporting." education and crime at The Star-Ledger and NJ.com in New Jersey. "In our case, I would say that less than 20 percent of their work time was devoted to a kind of classic regional reporting. Im a reporter on the General Assignment desk at The Washington Post, where I write about. "Frankly, the delegation doesn't produce enough news to keep two reporters busy," Willse says. Scott Orr covered technology and Robert Cohen tracked the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry. He says not much will be lost in terms of covering specific members of Congress, since the paper decided several years ago to forego comprehensive reporting on the delegation in favor of beat coverage. "Until we're sure who still works here, we're not really in a great position to decide any of the beats, including Washington," says Editor Jim Willse. At AJR's deadline, it was unclear whether they would be replaced, but it seemed unlikely. Here's the New Jersey section in the AJR story:īoth of the Washington reporters for Newark's Star-Ledger, another Newhouse property, accepted buyouts as part of major cutbacks at the paper.
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