Bricks & Clicks
The Rockford Register Star is more than a newspaper: the ink on print or the “bricks” in the News Tower. We’re a multimedia news and information company: the “clicks” on our Web site and the TV clips on WREX-13. This blog explains our fast-changing media environment and interacts with our readers to show how and why we do what we do.

Archive for March 26th, 2008

the newsroom got the whole ‘hog

3 comments March 26th, 2008

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here’s some light fare for spring break week:

the rockford register star gives out monthly awards to recognize employees. the names and descriptions (below) come from the jim collins book “good to great.”

  • Brutal Facts - Awarded to person that looked at a system or procedure, faced the brutal fact that it was holding back the department, and suggested changes that are implemented.
  • Hedgehog – Awarded to an individual that best keeps to our hedgehog concept.
  • Flywheel – Awarded to an individual that shows improvement over the longest time.
  • for february, the newsroom won the award for its coverage of the niu campus shootings. this is the first time an award has gone to an entire department. assistant metro editor bob schaper is pictured above with the oversized hedgehog that sits in the newsroom. he’s always wanted the little hedgehogs that come with the usual award.

    of course, we don’t cover news for the awards. but we’ll take ‘em when we get ‘em.


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