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Ousted Metro Editor Offers Advice For Newspapers: Be Free, Young And Easy

By Dylan on November 17, 2006 1:50 PM

metro_092506.jpgMark Moore, the former editor of Metro U.S. who was axed in late September, says newspaper’s should go tabloid, free and be devoid of editorials. Via E&P:

A few emergency ideas from the former Metro U.S. editor: Go tab, go free, go short. Stop endorsing candidates. Come to think of it, drop all editorials. Think young, think local. Sign up readers as contributors. And that’s just a start.

Is he a revolutionary? Or an idiot? Discuss.

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