•
•

to discuss how to make newspa-
pers more relevant to the com-
munity. NEWS 2000's goal is to
view the community from the
outside in, and to use that to dri-
ve coverage. NEWS 2000 sought
to improve basic skills and make
newspaper language more un-
derstandable.
"Our commitment is to two
values: First Amendment re-
sponsibilities and diversity," Mr.
- Silverman said. "Phil Curry, a
Gannett vice president, often
speaks of the positive power of
the press, its duty to impart a
sense of inclusiveness, to give
people a voice. We must under-
stand what motivates the com-
munity. We can't lead the paper
with the death of the day on
page one and follow with a city
council meeting inside.
•
"Bob Giles was on the right
•
track in terms of broadening lo-
cal news, getting out ahead of
the news. I think we need to con-
stantly change and evolve with
emphasis on local coverage," he
continued.
Mr. Silverman points to the
city of Dearborn as an amazing
community of religious diversi-
\-- ty.
"Arabs and Jews without
walls between them — it's a
treasure," he said.
Mr. Silverman said he will
cover Israel the same here,
where there is a large Arab pop-
ulation, as he would in New
York or any city with a large
Jewish population. He believes,
however, that Detroit should re-
/-- port on the Middle East more

than a paper in Nebraska would.
"Key topics change in differ-
ent parts of the country; how you
cover them doesn't," he said.
While Mr. Silverman was re-
luctant to share personal infor-
mation, he did say that he and
his wife, Lorie, plan to join a Re-
form temple, and he expects
their daughter Amy, 17, to seek
out a B'nai B'rith Girls chapter.
Their son Rik, 19, is at William

"A good newspaper
is a reflection
of the
community."

— Mark Silverman

tive newspaper cities left in the
country. This is a neat situation,
head-to-head competition. It's
exciting to be in a big-time news-
paper city."

❑

Mark Silverman
Age: 47
Education: BA. in his-
tory, University of Massa-
chusetts.
Professional: Publisher
of The Detroit News.
Personal: Married to
Lorie Silverman, three
children.
Hobbies: Golf and read-
ing. Recently read Walter
Cronkite's autobiography
and especially enjoyed
Mr. Cronkite's reminis-
cences of his stint as a
World War H correspon-
dent.

& Mary College in Virginia and
their youngest child, David, 11,
an up-and-coming golfer, will be
a sixth-grader in the fall.
Mr. Silverman calls himself a
bad golfer, but he loves the
game, as does Lorie.
"My greatest fear is that my
youngest son will `lap' me on the
golf course," he said. So far this
summer, Mr. Silverman has
teed off only at the Grand Tra-
verse Resort, but come Septem-
ber, when the family's settled in,
he's planning to hit the links.
In the meantime, he'll relish
the relative quiet in his win-
dowless enclave and focus on the
challenges ahead.
"There aren't many competi-

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