VITAMEDIAS
Walker in Suburbia: ["This year we can focus on journalism"]
As the new year gets under way, Inky Editor Walker Lundy says he's planning a series of meetings at the bureaus to let both veteran and nascent staffers know that, after a year of tumult and upheaval, 2003 is looking good.
"A lot of last year was taken up with coming to grips with what our journalistic strategy ought to be, staff changes and the hiring of 40 or so new reporters," says Lundy, who joined the Inquirer at the end of 2001, from the St. Paul Pioneer Press in Minneapolis. "This year we can focus on journalism."
The strategy, Lundy says, includes three basic goals: to create memorable journalism; to be surprising to the readers; and to provide information that will be viewed as useful.