Posted: 4/13/07
Standard, others launch
new era of collaboration
The current print edition of the Baptist Standard represents the first in a collaborative venture that also involves Associated Baptist Press and the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald and soon will expand to include the Missouri Baptist Word & Way.
The editorial staffs of each partner in the venture now work together to select content for many of the pages that contain stories of general interest, including the cover stories and related articles. Lindsay Bergstrom of Associated Baptist Press then provides the graphic design for each of those jointly planned pages.
The collaborative arrangement not only provides cost savings for partner publications that split the cost of the design fee, but also broadens the scope of each newspaper, Baptist Standard Editor Marv Knox noted.
“Baptist Standard readers will benefit from the combined newsgathering resources of our partners as we work together,” Knox said.
At the same time, he added, each newspaper maintains its own editorial freedom, and readers will see no significant drop in state-specific news coverage.
To accommodate its partner publications, readers may notice the redesigned Standard is printed on a slightly smaller page. However, the average page count per issue increases from 20 to 24 pages.
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