“And it’s the writers that you know their names and care about and suddenly they’re not writing. “It’s arts and neighborhoods,” said Dobson. The impetus for the publication came in 2011, after the latest round of cuts at Gannett’s The Courier-Journal, specifically those of the Neighborhoods section and the weekly features publication, Velocity. This is just a bit of the story behind The Paper.
But, luckily, the two acknowledged it was a story worth sharing.įor two years and 24 issues, Dobson and Brothers have led a publication which strives to tell the stories of the people behind the stories of this town. I responded with a pitch (this pitch) with which I assumed they would not be comfortable. Well, this article took a bit of arm-twisting to bring to fruition, but it was something I wanted to do.īrothers and Matt Dobson, The Paper’s creative director, sent out an email announcing their decision to end The Paper on June 6, along with an invitation for ideas for a final issue. The information is all in front of you so if you want to do it then do it.” There’s no sense in waiting for someone to give you permission, waiting for someone to give you a job.
And band together and make the most beautiful thing that you can. “I don’t want to misappropriate a beautiful quote from him, but he basically says find your friends – find the friends of friends, find the friends of friends of friends – who are creating beautiful things, who are making beautiful things happen. “I didn’t realize that there was a name for what we were doing until I found this article about a commencement address by Robert Krulwich and he talked about the idea of horizontal loyalty,” said Stephanie Brothers, editor of The Paper.
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