Category: Newspaper news

Les Gapay update

The L.A. Times has his cellphone number, as does NPR. I, however, do not. A couple minutes ago I fielded the second inquiry from a radio producer trying to get Gapay on the air. I’m flattered by the attention, folks,…

Former copy editor named Merc publisher

Chip Visci did most of his editorial work at the Detroit Free Press … he’s been a Knight Ridder exec for the past few years.

Full employment for Seattle newsies preserved

It’s good that all those folks working in one of those newsrooms will keep their jobs, now that the JOA’s been upheld again. But there’s always been something fraudulent about JOAs — under the guise of preserving editorial voices, newspapers…

Good news for Philly

They’re getting a good guy as publisher. Joe Natoli, now our former publisher at the Mercury News, was the first publisher I’ve ever been happy, maybe even proud, to work for. Sure, he didn’t know my name — heck, it’s…

Discarded by the news industry

… Now living out of his pickup truck. This is a near heartbreaking story of a 60ish reporter can’t find work and has been essentially camping out for more than a year. The real pathos emerges from the fact that…