Who makes these ad placement decisions?

[Courtesy Flush]

This in inexcusable.

[Enrique]

1. possibly a computer

but it's not 100% bad that it happened, it makes a good point to have the ad next to that story.

[Courtesy Flush]

2. I searched, and found this statement

http://blog.stamfordadvocate.com/stamford411/2013/01/03/advocate-apologizes-for-gun-show-ad/

“Our newspapers should not be running gun ads — including ads for antique and collectible gun shows — next to stories about Sandy Hook. It’s insensitive, and it shouldn’t have happened. It was an oversight, and we apologize for it. We have taken steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

[napi21]

3. I actually heard on a radio/tv show yesterday that someone from that newspaper

said "I think it's goo that the ad was placed on the same page as the Sandy Hook sjppting. I think it points out the things that need to change.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. It's the other way around

from my experience. The ads go in first, then the stories etc, fill in around it.

[Fawke Em]

5. Yep. When I was on pagination duty

I got the pages with the ads BEFORE we started filling in the content.