REGISTER EDITOR SHAMELESSLY
HAWKS NEW YORK MEDIA COUPS
The world famous Round Top Register has finally been acknowledged by highly placed journalists of the
New York media. On Thursday, August 1,
the New York Times featured...
The Register's media empire builds
The New York Times Notices! - Matt Mirapaul and Arts at Large testifies to the truth...
The Register got named to Yahoo's "Top Picks of the Week"
Alas, our week is over...fame is fleeting.
Read what Jodi Cohen, New Media Editor at Editor and Publisher has to say about the Register.
The Texas Monthly home boys get in on our "quirky" act,
naming us one of the great state's "Top 100 web sites."
REGISTER TO BE FEATURED IN DOCUMENTARY
PBS INTERVIEWS EDITOR
St. Louis - The Round Top Register will be “featured prominently” in the upcoming two-hour PBS
documentary, Digital Nation, currently in production by St. Louis PBS affiliate, KETC, according to the
show’s producer, Mary D. Leahy.
The documentary, about the impact of digital technology and modern telecommunications on rural
areas, will be filmed in many areas across the nation and will air in late summer or early fall of 1997.
Editor's Note: Digital Nation was aired extensively on PBS affiliates across the nation beginning in the Summer of 1998...I looked fat, no doubt the result of the false pounds applied by the lense of the television camera. However, despite the unflattering gravity of the situation, I am expecting Jay Leno's call at any moment due to my exquisite performance.
7-18-99 - He still hasn't called...must have lost the telephone number.
BBC RADIO SHOW INTERVIEWS
ROUND TOP REGISTER EDITOR
London - On the afternoon of Friday, July 25th, a Mr. Jay Reyner of the BBC radio show Paper Talk,
interviewed Chris Travis, editor of the Round Top Register.
Mr. Reyner’s program, which covers the British journalism industry, discovered the Register through
its Internet site.
He seemed particularly interested in the status of the Register’s ongoing print war with the New York
Times.
“It must be difficult to compete,” suggested Mr. Reyner. “The Times has about 10,000 employees and
you have...one?”
Obviously the British Broadcasting Corporation did not have the most up to date information.
“No,” replied the Register’s editor “You must be reading an old article. We are growing at a breakneck
pace. We now have four people working here, counting myself, and only two of them are part time. We
have quadrupled the number of employees at the Register in the last year! Let the Times match that.”
After completing the interview and bidding good-bye to Mr. Reyner, the editor noticed that his wife had
her head on her desk, overcome with laughter.
Assuming she was responding to his rapier wit, he said “What? What did I say?”
“You...you...” she stuttered. “You were talking with a very bad British accent.” She exploded into
sputters.
“Oh my God,” moaned the editor. “I’ve humiliated myself in front of the Queen.”
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