Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Score one for the Globe

The Joplin Globe released a bulletin moments ago about the sale of Loma Linda Country Club to Bobby and Amy Landis of Joplin, scoring a beat on the new Joplin Daily in the breaking news competition.
The scoop was a follow-up to a regional bulletin that ran earlier today about the resignation of the entire Galena, Kan. Police Department. Of course, the Daily is not competing against the Globe for regional readers, but the new approach to the website is certain to draw more visitors.
The Daily meanwhile may have something up its sleeve, but it has not been showing on the website. Some material has been updated, particularly sports, but the new publication has not followed its initial success on Sunday with a string of scoops.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Landis doesn't live in city limits. Loma Linda isn't in Joplin. It's a town of its own. I doubt the Daily distributes its print product there. This may not be that big of a scoop for the Globe.

Randy said...

You are probably right, but it still ranks up there with the Daily's New Year's baby scoop I was playing up Jan. 1.

Anonymous said...

Ah, didn't catch the tongue in cheek.

Anonymous said...

It doesn't help that today's paper edition of the globe says, "12 Miners Found Alive."
The world may be just too fast for paper news.

Anonymous said...

Randy, it's about time you said something negative about the Joplin Daily. Had thought you had sold your soul for column rights and blog promotion. So far, the new site and Sunday publication needs a lot of help to warrant praise...your negativity towards Debbie Woodin of the Globe by comparison is unjustified.

Randy said...

I haven't meant to be negative toward Debby Woodin, only the Herald. She was put in a thankless, no-win job, by superiors who do not have the slighest concept of what a weekly newspaper is. Ms. Woodin is not a columnist, but an excellent reporter whose talents are being wasted with the Herald.

Anonymous said...

Good for Bobby & Amy Landis! I am so happy for their new aquisition...they deserve all the best. NOT!!

Anonymous said...

After two Sunday editions and one week of on-line publications, It's time to assess JoplinDaily.com. It is failing to do what it promised. The columns in the January 8 edition are totally without merit for an "all Joplin all the time" news publication. They are traditional columns of high school amateurish standing. In other respects it's time to rename the publication. It should be the JoplinSPORTSdaily.com. Sports far outweighs news content, and as valuable as sports coverage of purely Joplin events may be, it should not overshadow Joplin news coverage. Overall, the writing is still at an amateurish, high school level, lacking depth and meaningful insight into effects on Joplin populations. I still have hopes that problems can be overcome, but I'm afraid the mindset of some of the Daily's founders still centers on sports and on personal events in their own lives rather than in the lives of readers. Columns should be hard-hitting analyses of news events, and then, and only then, will the editorial staff show its true colors.