![]() But that sort of experience just fuses that in a way that I had never experienced before, and that I actually find a little bit hard to communicate. You know, The Herald is a community newspaper, and has been for 130 years. We became, I think, more tightly bonded with the community. Now, going through that flood, which hurt so many in the community, where I think 11 downtown buildings, including your newspaper office, were damaged, did that change the nature, the mission of the "Grand Forks Herald" and the way you approach your job? JACOBS: I think so. And I think that's the great lesson from the flood of '97 for me, particularly as we look at the state of newspaper business. And we're very proud that we were able to do it, but what it really taught us is the incredible importance of information in a time of crisis, and the incredible power of the newspaper to reach out to people and bring them together in ways that we sort of imagined, but had never really experienced. How difficult was it to keep the paper afloat, so to speak, when your own building was damaged? We're seeing it right now. Your newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize back in 1997 for covering the devastating flood that year. KURTZ: This is not the first time you've been through this. So our level of confidence is going up, but we're still - confidence is up, but complacency is not. This morning, it looks - the news is good this morning both in Fargo and Grand Forks. So we've had - we've had the unusual combination of flooding and blizzard conditions at the same time, particularly in Fargo, where, as you know, the flood fight has been desperate. What's been the challenge of covering this fast-moving story that touches just about everyone in your community? MIKE JACOBS, EDITOR & PUBLISHER, "GRAND FORKS HERALD": This has been extraordinary, of course, because the flood came at us so very rapidly. He is the editor and publisher of the "Grand Forks Herald," joining us by phone from North Dakota. And we want to - although the levees have held so far, and the Red River seems to have crested, it is still high, but the situation remains serious. You're all aware of the situation there with the flooding. ![]() KURTZ: We'll talk to you a little bit later in the program. ![]() I sometimes feel like I'm covering the steel industry in the '70s. My newspaper, The Washington Post, offering their second round of early retirement buyouts to those over 50. You know, this week, John, The New York Times ordering 100 layoffs, 5 percent pay cuts for everybody else. HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR: Some of my younger producers weren't sure who Brenda Starr is, she's sort of a newspaper version of Lois Lane. And this is not a laughing matter, but it is a comic book cover, even "Brenda Starr," it appears, facing the pressure on the print side of the business. JOHN KING, HOST: And time this hour, as we do every Sunday, to hand off to my partner, Howie Kurtz and his "RELIABLE SOURCES." And as I do so, Howie, we've talked almost every week about what a difficult time it is in the print industry. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ![]()
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