Ron Rollins

Dayton Day-Old News – losing more institutional knowledge

The Cox sisters don’t want to be in the news business and are doing the best they can to kill off any chance of survival by producing a crappy product of day old news, printed in Indianapolis and delivered late daily in Dayton. They are in the cable business- and think that their Cox cash Read More

Dayton Daily news/Cox Ohio does the reorg dance- again

In November, the last of what I call the “typewriter brigade” left the building. The old-timers (not really old enough to remember editing copy with scissors and rubber cement paste pot) were the last bastion of true institutional knowledge in the building, took a buyout and tossed their steno books. With the exception of Tom Read More

Good riddance Ellen Belcher: DDN reshuffle

The Dayton Daily news finally brings intelligent leadership to the editorial pages by promoting Ron Rollins to run the section. No more political party hack bias from Belcher, or pontifications from Sir Martin Gottlieb. Here is the official internal memo from managing editor Jana Collier: From: Collier, Jana Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 6:27 PM Read More