11:30 am | Newspaper Editing in a Tweet-Driven World

Presenter: Mary Solberg
Time: Thursday, June 22 at 11:30
Location: Room 2320

Newspaper Editing in a Tweet-Driven World

How do newspapers compete in a tweet-driven world? Decreasing attention spans, competing sources of instant news, and increased printing costs create challenges for the diocesan and secular press. But Twitter —with its 140- character limit – can be an ally. Newspaper editors can use it to drive readership and push themselves to write and edit more tightly and creatively.

Mary Solberg

The 2016 recipient of the Catholic Press Association’s Individual Excellence as Editor Award, Mary Solberg is editor of FaithLife newspaper and associate director of communications for the Diocese of Erie, Pa.

She has won numerous Catholic Press Association awards in the categories of Best Front Page, Best Photograph, Best Sports Feature, Best News Writing and Best Special Supplement. She is a 2016 recipient of the Golden Quill Award (history feature) from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, and a 2016 Niagara Award recipient for feature writing from the Public Relations Society of America, Erie.

A 1981 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she was a daily news reporter and a weekly columnist for the Times Publishing Company (Erie), for which she also served as editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle magazine.

A native of Pennsylvania’s Great Lakes region, she is married and the mother of three sons.