So Sad
This is not surprising, but it is sad nonetheless - the Star Tribune announced more lay offs today - this time 145 including 50 in the newsroom. That alone isn't that surprising considering the state of dead-tree journalism. What hurts me personally is the reassigning of Lileks:
The Lileks decision I can understand. His work at the paper has always been somewhat "less than" (I mean they call his column "The Quirk" for gods-sake) his online presence. If you read the Bleat on a regular basis, you see the beginnings of all the cool stuff that later hits the Quirk anyway. I suspect he's always been too politically conservative to have front-and-center at the Strib.
But putting aside Lileks, it looks like they might be shuffling all the columnists, including the gossip gal (Cheryl Johnson or CJ) the two liberals (Grow and Coleman) and the one token conservative (Kersten):
Why gut the columnists? Who reads the paper for the "news" anyway. What's left? More "Source" articles and how-to tips?
[T]hey've killed my column, and assigned me to write straight local news stories.
Really.
The Lileks decision I can understand. His work at the paper has always been somewhat "less than" (I mean they call his column "The Quirk" for gods-sake) his online presence. If you read the Bleat on a regular basis, you see the beginnings of all the cool stuff that later hits the Quirk anyway. I suspect he's always been too politically conservative to have front-and-center at the Strib.
But putting aside Lileks, it looks like they might be shuffling all the columnists, including the gossip gal (Cheryl Johnson or CJ) the two liberals (Grow and Coleman) and the one token conservative (Kersten):
The newspaper’s reorganization may also include reassigning one of the paper’s four local columnists — Cheryl Johnson, Doug Grow, Katherine Kersten and Nick Coleman. The newspaper also expects to reduce its editorial staff by five staffers to seven.
Why gut the columnists? Who reads the paper for the "news" anyway. What's left? More "Source" articles and how-to tips?
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