Newsday to hire 34 journalists, add news/opinion pagesIn a big step forward on boosting our local coverage, during the next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital teams, and add 2,600 pages of additional news and opinion to our newspaper annually. ...
Many initiatives will increase town and local coverage in print and provide our online audience with more updates and faster coverage of breaking news around the clock. They include:
* Adding to the number of town reporters
* Doubling the number of Long Island news pages in Newsday each day
* Upping the number of regional zoned editions of Sunday’s LI Life to provide more localized town news and information
* Hiring community journalists who will hit Long Island's streets in search of local features and personalities that define each community as we launch hundreds of hyper-local pages later this month
* Gathering and building even more databases to become the definitive online source of local data for LI communities
* Expanding our "community watchdog" role by increasing local investigations and enterprise reporting staff to dig into key topics that matter most to Long Islanders *** If Newsday is hiring any editors to handle this new deluge, the memo doesn't mention it. ***