http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//20...01_270x284.jpgUSA Today gets makeover for mobile worldby Edward Moyer Font sizePrintE-mailSharePost a comment Yahoo! Buzz.diggUSA Today, the
cheap wow power leveling nation's second largest newspaper, announced this week a major restructuring effort designed to address a drop in advertising and circulation and bring it up to speed in today's new world of smartphones and tablets. In a slide show
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buy cheap wow gold 130 layoffs, a 9 percent reduction in USA Today's 1,500-strong workforce, and breaks up the newsroom, the AP said. The paper's main sections--News, Sports, Money, and Life--no longer have separate managing editors. Instead, "content rings" will be led by editors who will be appointed later in the year. The content rings will be labeled Your Life, Travel, Breaking News, Investigative, National, Washington/Economy, World, Environment/Science, Aviation, Personal Finance, Autos, Entertainment, and Tech. In addition, the Sports section has been spun off into its own brand: USA Today Sports. Steve Kurtz will lead the effort to
wow powerleveling service increase USA Today's impact in the mobile realm, as the new vice president of digital development, according to a press release. Kurtz was formerly director of digital information technology for USAToday.com. USA Today made a splash when it debuted in the early '80s as the first general-interest national newspaper. Its distinctively shaped, blue-and-white news racks, introduction of color to photographs, cartoony info graphics, and trademark bite-size stories earned it the derisive nickname of "McPaper." But that didn't stop it from reaching a circulation of 2.3 million and becoming the largest newspaper in the United States. And of course, color eventually made its way into old guard publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times (the former "Gray Lady"), and the online arms of both those papers--and most others besides--now also offer bite-size journalism in the form of copious blog entries.
