Peter Imes

Publisher, The Commercial Dispatch

Peter Imes is the fourth-generation Publisher of The Commercial Dispatch, serving Columbus and Starkville, Miss.

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We’re very focused on what our newsroom needs to be doing. So, we make a conscious effort not to get distracted by telling our reporters to go out and get video from the scenes, and we’re very focused in the way, and limited in the way, that we use social media. And I know that neither of those are trendy, but I think a lot of news (organizations) have gone astray because they have asked their reporters to do all of these different things at the sacrifice of good quality journalism. So we’re kind of doubling down on having our reporters stay focused on solid news gathering.