Recently in an Editor & Publisher Online column, I described a couple innovative print classified initiatives from the Baltimore Sun and the St. Petersburg Times. The Sun, with its FindIt! recruitment stand-alone section introduced a few weeks ago, and the Times with its overall-classifieds BayLink section introduced last May, both took the approach of incorporating [...]

You might find my latest column for Editor & Publisher Online of interest: “Print Classifieds for the Internet Age.” It’s a look at a new trend among (a still small number of) newspapers to turn their printed classifieds into something completely different by not only redesigning the ad component, but turning the sections into credible [...]