new Limerick Leader editor this week

Amazotheamazing

The new Leader editor is due to be annouced this week, lets hope he or she can change it's overwhelming negative outlook, and actually project at least some postive images of the city.

In one sense, the editor of the Leader should be one of the most prestigious jobs in the local newspaper business in the country, it is, after all, the main paper in one of the biggest areas in country, but instead, the entire paper is a source of derision and mirth for the majority of the city. Let's hope the new editor can improve the writing, the printing and the reading of the Leader, if not, lets hope it's owners will shut it down.

What would people like to see the new editor bring in?

ellenmelon

wooo! fresh blood. not in the "lets abuse the ****e out of them" more a "that paper needs a breath of fresh air"
i think someone a) young-ish and possibly b) foreign? english/scots? (someone coming in with no former impressions of a city??).
totally needs a new look that paper and a real shakeup of what they want to produce.i think this includes getting rid of some rather sour staffers and the odd photog they have their. it reads as a paper written for one target audience. i think those metro style papers (smaller and stapled) look a lot nicer and are easier to read too. it needs to project the what the city thinks of itself so a bit more..cool.

thats my quick 0.02 cents

Karmafaerie

I agree competely with Ellen.
I think that an editor coming in from abroad would be perfect.

dv

Does Castleconnell count as foreign?

http://www.limericktoday.com/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3419&ArticleID=1931371

ellenmelon

dv wrote:

Does Castleconnell count as foreign?

http://www.limericktoday.com/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=3419&ArticleID=1931371

well, he worked on english papers for a good while so sure...kinda foreign in a way.