Curiouser and Curioser
It's too early to speculate, but let's do it anyway.
We've watched carefully as the Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) newspapers make over The Tribune and The Evening News. I have to say that, so far, I'm less than impressed.
And perhaps I'm not the only one. Sources confirm to us that staff writer and former City Editor Amany Ali is the latest of senior employees to part ways with the company.
Amany has carried the city beat for quite a while now, but now is moving on toward more edifying pursuits. In something of a shocker, Ms. Ali has accepted a position with (drumroll, please)...The McCartin Companies.
Every person is entitled to seek happiness where it can be found. Transitions from journalism to commerce are all too common, but this writer will miss the unique cadences of the Ali reporting and commentary. Best wishes, Amany, in your new career. As you help to expand The Gary's empire of cookie-cutter sprawl, don't forget those of us who live and work in Mr. McCartin's donut hole.
We've watched carefully as the Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) newspapers make over The Tribune and The Evening News. I have to say that, so far, I'm less than impressed.
And perhaps I'm not the only one. Sources confirm to us that staff writer and former City Editor Amany Ali is the latest of senior employees to part ways with the company.
Amany has carried the city beat for quite a while now, but now is moving on toward more edifying pursuits. In something of a shocker, Ms. Ali has accepted a position with (drumroll, please)...The McCartin Companies.
Every person is entitled to seek happiness where it can be found. Transitions from journalism to commerce are all too common, but this writer will miss the unique cadences of the Ali reporting and commentary. Best wishes, Amany, in your new career. As you help to expand The Gary's empire of cookie-cutter sprawl, don't forget those of us who live and work in Mr. McCartin's donut hole.
posted by All4Word at 4:19 PM
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One to watch, eh?
Unique cadences . . . that's a very apt summation.
Jim Nichols gone as editor, John Gilkey departed, Greg Gapsis transitioning, Amany Ali the reporter quitting, Amany Ali the columnist gone, Allen Howie the columnist vanished, Mitzi Greenwell kaput...who's next?
That's an awful lot of institutional memory skedaddling out the door...who's minding the store?
How well does Shea Van Hoy know Southern Indiana? Steve or Lisa Kozarovich? John Tucker? And does it even matter?
When you're renovating, you often have to tear it down before you build it back, but this is starting to look like a retreat, not an advance.
Are the rumors true that Tucker was sent here to get the paper ready to sell? Will we have to rely on the Gannett paper to give us a page or two a day of local coverage? If your market is New Albany, Sellersburg, Greenville, Georgetown, Jeffersonville, Floyds Knobs and Clarksville, or even Corydon, Lanesville, Salem and Scottsburg, how do you, as an advertiser reach that market.
A fuller analysis of the current situation must wait, but I'm concerned, and I hear I'm not the only one concerned. Is corporate happy with the results so far? Do they endorse the fast-and-loose headlines and the head-chopping? And if so, to what end result?
Who, exactly, is driving the assignment desk? What, exactly, is the editorial agenda?
Stay tuned.
Actually, Amany the columnist did not vanish, as her column had been relegated to the Sunday Spectrum (and seemed to have been reduced in terms of word count).
Note also that the Region Editor has yet to make it outside Floyd and Clark, and recently resumed writing sports columns again, although this time on the actual sports page.
Confusing, indeed. Time for return sympsium appearance by Mr. Tucker.
Perhaps that could happen over beer and pizza. Nobody's given him hell for it yet, but a bet's a bet.
Anybody know a good place for pizza and beer?
There goes that damn impulse control problem again.
I'd offer my place, but only if you don't mind sharing a table with someone as hateful as I am.
Could you sit at the next table?
John, we need beer -- remember?
I can bring beer to Randy's store?
Most of us here are the ones who actually give a fig about the paper. That's why we're all wondering what the hell is going on, John.
If your rooters, cheerleaders and boosters are writing things that you characterize as "hurtful to this newspaper’s future and the employees who work here," what are the hoi polloi saying? It was a question, and not one you've not heard before. I guess you've answered it.
Now, I'm just trying to figure out if I even know any of the "employees who work [t]here."
Hmmm -- this particular editor arrives, and veteran staffers stream from the paper. Where have we seen this before?
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