The Dayton Daily news and Cox Media eliminated 7 people yesterday. Some, were out on assignment, when the big boss notified the staff who got the axe. When it’s your time to go, it’s “Hhello, you’re fired, give us your ID and keys and we’ll escort you out. We’ll go through your desk- and mail Read More
Last week the Dayton Daily news had the sad, sad story of poor Steve Rauch who didn’t get paid for tearing down a perfectly good historic building. No mention of performance bonds- which is the norm for projects like this: The company that demolished parts of the historic Dayton Daily News building at 45 S. Read More
As if losing your job doesn’t suck enough, those fine folks at Cox Media- who have a million dollars to donate to Dayton’s Whitewater- announced last week that they would be cutting jobs this week. Word is that more reporters are being shown the door, a photographer and a few managers. Considering they barely publish Read More
Larry C. Price had already won the Pulitzer prize twice for photojournalism before he came to the Dayton Daily news to be its photo editor. He ran a tight shop, with about 8 full-time photojournalists. That was until they asked him to fire half the staff- and he took a stand and said, well, find Read More
A good friend thanked me for posting about the passing of two former candidates for the Dayton City Commission. I didn’t write much- but, both times, the following day, the paper had a decent send-off for these past leaders. Granted, both of them died way too young (55, 53) but, by no means should they Read More
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