{"id":1420,"date":"2005-06-02T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2005-06-02T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:39:27","slug":"ajr_on_lee_ente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"AJR on Lee Enterprises, Parent of the Wisconsin State Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajr.org\/Article.asp?id=3878\">Lori Robertson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/wsj\/\">Wisconsin State Journal<\/a> in Madison, Bill Wineke, the books editor and a columnist, recalls a time in the early 1970s&#8211;he&#8217;s been there since &#8217;63&#8211;when he wrote a column that was distributed to about 15 Lee papers.<\/p>\n<p>After a number of weeks, the State Journal decided to syndicate the column and asked the papers to pay 50 cents each, for postage. Every one of them dropped it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Seely, science and environment reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal, said in late April that his paper was leaving two key jobs unfilled: a regional reporter position and an assistant city editor job. &#8220;That makes it harder on our already small staff,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s frustrating.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Shephard take a look at the local daily newspaper business in the June 2, 2005 Isthmus &#8211; available now.  Shephard mentions Lee&#8217;s 20% profit margins along with a few local reporter&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Robertson: At the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Bill Wineke, the books editor and a columnist, recalls a time in the early 1970s&#8211;he&#8217;s been there since &#8217;63&#8211;when he wrote a column that was distributed to about 15 Lee papers. After a number of weeks, the State Journal decided to syndicate the column and asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}