About

This blog will keep you updated about the efforts by Journal Register Company’s IdeaLab member Ivan Lajara as he experiments with tools that will enable a newspaper to turn into a digital enterprise.

Ivan Lajara joined the Freeman in January of 2001 as a copy editor for the News department. In 2004, he started working for the Life department and became editor of the section soon thereafter. He was named Editor of the Year in January 2006 by the Suburban Newspapers Association of America. He also had a role in Las Noticias, the Freeman’s Spanish weekly newspaper. He is the editor of Preview, the Freeman’s weekly entertainment magazine. And he edits special sections like Your Wedding, Home and Garden, Health and Fitness, Getting Around and Designs for Living. The Peruvian native has lived in the Hudson Valley since 1996. Today, he lives in Kingston.