Newsday to Hire 34 Journalists in Hyperlocal Push

Newsday, the Long Island daily, plans on staffing up to the tune of 34 new journalists and three others, according to a memo obtained by Ryan Derousseau at our sister site, MediaJobsDaily.

Derousseau reports:

In the memo, Newsday editor-in-chief Debby Krenek explains that the paper will seek to grow its hyper-local coverage of Long Island towns, by adding more beat reporters while also increasing the number of pages focused on local news and opinion by 2,600 for the year.

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