 The Buffalo News newsroom is the hub of writing, photographing and designing for each day’s paper. With nearly 200 staff members, The News has by far the largest news-gathering organization of any media in upstate New York, helping to produce the largest newspaper in the state outside New York City. The News has won three Pulitzer prizes, and each year wins half a dozen or more statewide awards, in competition with the New York City papers, which are some of the best in the nation.
 The newsroom is staffed from 5 a.m. to 3 a.m. Departments include World and National news, Local news, Sports, Business, Life & Arts, Photo, Graphics, First Sunday magazine and the News library. Staff members who report to Editor and Vice President Margaret Sullivan include reporters, photographers, page designers, copy, layout and content editors, columnists, researchers and supervising editors. It also publishes pictures and short stories honoring 50th wedding anniversaries. But The News is also ranked by a competing publication as the most powerful institution in Western New York. Taking that responsibility seriously, the paper’s editors emphasize local news, strong, enterprising reporting and in-depth investigative journalism.
In 2004-05 the paper underwent a complete, in-house redesign. That “anchored” all the main news and classified sections in the same order and with the same elements inside each one every day. It returned the Picture Page to the paper’s lineup and assigned a half-page every day to a color weather package.
The News’ stated editorial goal is: ”We want to be a paper that consistently executes important journalism, presented effectively and with style; that engages readers and makes itself indispensable to them; and that is shot through with intelligence, sophistication and humanity.” |
Interesting Facts About
The Buffalo News
The News comes out every day of the year, which amounts to 1,600-2,000 sections of the paper – the A section, City & Region, Life & Arts, Business, Sports and weekly ones like Gusto, NeXt and Viewpoints -- that are built from scratch each day.
The News publishes 18,000 photographs a year, of which more than 7,000 are taken by our staff of 12 photographers; all of it is done digitally with no more film or chemicals.
Critics review more than 150 restaurants a year, preview 200 movies, attends several hundred concerts from the BPO to Beyonce. Interviews in recent years included Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Quentin Tarantino, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Sports covers 120 high schools and an average of 2,400 of their teams, more than 10 colleges and another 150 teams, plus the Olympics, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB. There are also reports on fishing, auto racing, hunting, racket sports, running, skiing and boating. |
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