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GateHouse Media newsrooms are being evaluated today to see if they are meeting GateHouse goals for their newspapers and websites. We're looking for online updates, multimedia elements, promotions of print and online, as well as reader involvement in the newspaper and a specific type of alternative story format.
Newsrooms succeeding in all elements make the Inner Circle.
This year, GateHouse changed the expectations for Inner Circle, and this is the first quarter that is being evaluated. The new expectations put a greater emphasis on online elements, with new categories of community blogs, video and Facebook.
The following are Inner Circle categories:
Online
In Print
We'll post a list at the end of each day of the GateHouse newsrooms that make Inner Circle. You can also check out our Inner Circle Twitter account, where we'll post each newsroom as it is certified. You can find us at @GHInnerCircle
Jean Hodges served as a reporter and editor for more than 20 years and led groundbreaking projects that won national acclaim before coming to GateHouse to launch the company's news service. She worked most recently at the Chicago Sun-Times' Daily Southtown, covering the south side and south suburbs of Chicago. Before that she worked at the Killen (Texas) Daily Herald, the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal and the Ely Standard in Cambridgeshire, England. She now works with GateHouse news organizations on content strategies, Web initiatives, plus she leads training programs such as webinars and LEDE, GateHouse's leadership program.
