Posted on 06/25/2004 7:19:36 AM PDT by Pikamax
Pioneer Press to cut coverage, shift staff Deborah Caulfield Rybak, Star Tribune June 25, 2004 PIPRESS0625
The St. Paul Pioneer Press will undergo a major newsroom reorganization this fall, eliminating its online staff and several high-profile news beats, reducing its Minneapolis presence and increasing coverage of the suburbs.
The plans were announced this week to newsroom personnel, and the response was mainly silence, said staff members who were told by managers not to comment publicly.
As part of a redesign and refocusing of the paper to be introduced in mid-September, the Pioneer Press will reassign several writers, including TV/media critic Brian Lambert and religion columnist Steve Scott. It also will drop its Friday Eat section. Critic Kathie Jenkins will continue to review restaurants, but other food staff members will be reassigned.
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They forgot to add "liberal political commentator". Hopefully they reassign him to Timbuktu.
Jeez, my hubby been trying to find a good reporter and its hard. All the ones he's interviewed are morons who can't even get the facts right, and if they do, it is in one run-on sentence with improper noun/verb agreement throughout.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press isn't too terribly bad, kind of like the Richmond Times-Dispatch. I'd rather it be the Minneapolis Star & Tribune that was cutting back, however. The Star & Tribune is yet another piece of used toilet paper, borrowing a great deal from The Washington Post.
The only thing the PP has of interest is Joe Soucheray's column.
St. Paul Pioneer Press to eliminate online staff, several beats.
Star tribune ^ | 06/25/04 | Deborah Caulfield Rybak
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Hmmm, the Red Star has a writer with the name "Rybak". Where have I heard that name before...
Maybe the SPPP-published letters (mine among them) decrying Lambert's relentless bias have had an effect. Maybe we'll get a newspaper/TV critic who doesn't perpetually suffer public paroxysms of pique over all things conservative.
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