This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: Location of garden articles in newspapers

Bill,
  Your Richmond Times Dispatch just did a very decent article on my work, on
March 2nd. Janet Caggiano was the reporter who interviewed me in Richmond
last week, at the American lung Association of Virginia.

Tom Ogren
tloallergyfree@earthlink.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shear" <wshear@email.hsc.edu>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: Location of garden articles in newspapers


> > So, now I'm also very interested in finding out out which US newspapers
> > regularly publish separate garden sections? Is it more likely to be
driven by
> > advertising or perceived reader interest (is this the same thing?)? Are
there
> > any newspapers with full time "garden editors"?
>
> Our daily newspaper is the Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch (sometimes known
as
> the "Times Disgrace").  It has no garden section and has not had one for
at
> least the past 27 years.  On Saturdays, it runs one garden column (a very
> good one by Richmond writer Nancy Ross Hugo) on the front page of the
> Leisure Section.  There is a second garden column on Sunday, usually about
> 1/3 the length of Nancy's, culled from industry handouts by a "garden
> editor," but what other function this person serves is hard to fathom.
>
> The local three-times-a-week has never had a garden section or column, but
> as with most small-town papers, we have a late summer Bizarre Vegetable
> Season, when the paper prints pictures of prodigious tomatoes, or
zucchinis
> that look like Nixon, etc., etc.
>
> Is it possible that the claim of gardening as the national pastime is
wrong?
> If gardening is so big, why are so many garden magazines re-trenching or
> going out of business?  Why are book publishers cutting back on their
> gardening lists?
>
> Bill Shear
>
> ==========================================================
> Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Get the latest weather,
> sports, and lifestyle news you can't afford to miss, all
> at a price you can afford to pay!  Click now!
> http://click.topica.com/caaacQXbUrGSSbVVE9Of/TopOffers
> ==========================================================
>
> GWL has searchable archives at:
> http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters/
> If you have photos for GWL, send them to gwlphotos@hort.net and they will
show up at  http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos/
> **************************************************
>
>

==========================================================
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Get the latest weather,
sports, and lifestyle news you can't afford to miss, all
at a price you can afford to pay!  Click now!
http://click.topica.com/caaacQXbUrGSSbVSZwBf/TopOffers
==========================================================

GWL has searchable archives at: 
http://www.hort.net/lists/gardenwriters/
If you have photos for GWL, send them to gwlphotos@hort.net and they will show up at  http://www.hort.net/lists/gwlphotos/ 
**************************************************

==^================================================================
This email was sent to: topica.com@spamfodder.com

EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrGSS.bVSZwB
Or send an email to: Gardenwriters-unsubscribe@topica.com

T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail!
http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register
==^================================================================
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index