Journal Star Names New Editor
Michael Nelson is the new editor of the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper.
Publisher John Maher made the announcement today, saying Nelson would begin his new position on April 21.
Nelson comes to Lincoln from the Kansas City Star, where he was the paper's assistant managing editor and has worked for nearly 35 years.
The Journal Star's announcement pointed out his "deep ties" to the state: Nelson graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and he spent his high school years in Omaha, where many of his relatives still live, the paper said.
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That sound you just heard was the rumbling of nervous stomachs among the big boys high atop the Weird-Harold headquarters. The LJS is about to do things with their newspaper that the OWH is fully capable of doing, yet refuses to do so because, well, they are the Weird-Harold.
Looking forward to what Michael Nelson does with the LJS...if he does for that paper what he did for the KC Star, it might make me want to start subscribing to a Nebraska newspaper again.
Matt Perrault is Gay.
His tenure will not be a success unless wrestling coverage is expanded and our great sport is featured at least once per week with a front page article. Anything less is unacceptable and he would need to be replaced.
So what is the current ratio of jokes that were only funny the first 3,000 times we heard them to actual on-topic comments here?
3:1?
Assistant Managing Editor. Is that anything like being the assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater?
1:59 PM - It's comments like that that will wake up the natives and bring on more of the good old stuff. Wonder what J-Dub thinks about this move, how about Toad and Tylenol, what are their thoughts?
Doesn't tv news rate on this blog anymore?
This doesn't have anything to do with the Lincoln Journal Star. But...
I think the most laugh-out-loud downright silly thing regarding local news is the comments board over at the WOWT website.
I don't know who moderates that thing, but they'll let you be really insulting to other people who post, call people featured in stories stupid idiots, and generally make their website look plain foolish.
And there must be some law written somewhere that dictates that 94.2% of the posts must end with the words "RECALL FAHEY!!" (always in capital letters, but the number of exclamation points seems to be optional)
More wrestling!
RECALL FAHEY!!!!
LOL. No, no, no. You must remember to include references to "King Fahey", how Omaha has become a fascist state under his dictatorial rule and the persecution of taxation without representation. It also seems that certain of the WOWT viewers think our Mayor still goes by his maiden name of Fayhe. The comments they publish on their website certainly brings out the white trash aspect of the city.
12:21pm - I don't know. Omaha.com is pretty impressive. They stream AP video and everything!
(note the sarcasm)
I don't see this blog writing anything else about TV news. No one is watching.
Sincerely,
The Editors at the Weird-Harold
I hope they add a more local radio/tv coverage like the OWH has.
•Good luck with that Mr. Nelson.•
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Lee Enterprises: A Fraction Of Its Former Self; 31 Positions Cut At St. Louis Post-Dispatch
By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Mar 2008 04:45 PM PST
Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) touched a fresh 52-week low today, and its market cap stands at around $440 million. A little perspective: Just over three years ago, it purchased publisher Pulitzer Inc. for $1.46 billion. That means the value of the combined chains is worth less than a third of what Pulitzer alone was deemed to be worth at the time. Today’s drop follows news that the Lee-owned St. Louis Post-Dispatch will eliminate 31 jobs, according to the paper itself.
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# Missoula, Montana's Missoulian, a Lee
Enterprises paper, lays off nine workers.
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Layoffs at Lee Enterprise's North County Times
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The newspaper publisher says it has cut 2.6 percent of its non-sales positions.
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"Since Lee took over our property from Pulitzer, we have lost our pension plan and seen our health benefits changed to a plan that’s more expensive for employees. Our 401(k) plans were moved to a less-profitable manager and employees this summer were encouraged to take up to six weeks off (without pay) or switch to 32-hour work weeks (forgoing pay for that fifth day) for six weeks. Many fear layoffs are next."
It's funny how you are mentioning Lee layoffs when it's the World-Herald who is jettisoning people. The paper laid off at least a half dozen people this week, including Jake Thompson of the Washington bureau. However, no layoffs at the Journal Star.
"However, no layoffs at the Journal Star."
YET
The nervous rumbling isn't just emanating from the WH newsroom. Every newsroom has a nervous rumbling and it isn't about personnel moves from one company to another, it is about not having a clue as to how to make enough money in an internet based future to survive in their current form, let alone make the 30% they were accustomed to. It would be funny to watch the pompous management whose success was due more to monopoly and reader/viewer habit than their own self-perceived brilliance squirm, were it not for the fact that they're jumping from the sinking ships with millions and leaving the journalists, who've endured years of wage freezes and
'do more with less" to drown. Silly journalists, they thought it was about serving the public. The owners/managers are proving it was really about the money all along.
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