There is a very good explanation as to why so many arts critics are leaving The Dallas Morning News–or, at the very least, accepting the paper’s buyout offer, which they have till 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to withdraw. They were told to go by editor Bob Mong and vice president-managing editor…
A Dallas Morning News staffer who is taking the buyout offers the following concerning editor Bob Mong’s comments: “‘What I said in a memo to the staff when the press release [announcing the buyouts] came out was, if someone wants to get out of what is a very dynamic environment…
On Wednesday, Dallas Morning News staffers could begin accepting the newspaper’s buyout offers, and they did so in droves; some 80 staffers have taken the parting gift, among them some high-profile arts critics, reporters and editors. They’ve been named here and here, but those lists aren’t necessarily final: As Bob…
This afternoon, DallasBlog and FrontBurner began publishing the names of those staffers who have accepted the buyouts being offered by Dallas Morning News management. They sound about right from what we’ve been told over the course of the last two weeks; we have even more high-profile names to add, but…
Today, Dallas Morning News employees received this missive from Jim Moroney, their publisher and CEO. Word is, staffers at Dallas’ Only Daily–who, beginning at 8:30 this morning, could begin letting their bosses know whether they’re accepting the paper’s buyout offer–choked on it. “I am sorry to have to reschedule this…
I missed this on Saturday’s Dallas Morning News editorial page. I am glad a good Friend of Unfair Park’s did not: “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out It’s bad enough that struggling Northwest Airlines Corp. is laying off some 1,000 machinists as well as members of…
Used to be, The Dallas Morning News’ “Over the Top” arts blog was a happening scene full of contributions from the entire GuideLive staff. Today, eh, not so much. A sign of things to come, or has everyone just found another place where they can go to kill time? (Thanks…
Belo Corp. issued a press release this morning announcing that while its television group’s making money–revenue increased 8.6 percent in July 2006 versus last year–its newspaper group revenue is down. Says here, “Newspaper Group total revenue decreased 4.2 percent for the month of July versus the prior year, with a…
To the laundry list of problems facing The Dallas Morning News, add another: A judge in El Paso ruled yesterday that a libel suit filed by a Mexican newspaper can proceed and will, in fact, likely go to trial in February. Says here–and not in Dallas’ Only Daily, far as…
Here’s some good news for fans of the cable networks Logo and Here!, two channels with content aimed at gay viewers that had been dropped from local cable programming when Time Warner Cable took over the Dallas cable from Comcast Corp. on August 1. That had some local viewers mighty…
A Dallas Morning News staffer says folks in the newsroom have been told that 85 is, in fact, the target number Belo execs are aiming for in this latest round of buyouts/layoffs/summer vacations. The way they understand it, if 85 take the offer, nobody else will be let go; turns…
This morning, Belo Corp. issued a press release announcing that, at long last, it has provided to Dallas Morning News staffers details of the “Previously Announced Voluntary Severance Program.” In short, it says it’s “being offered to almost all newsroom employees” and that it’s merely part of the “newspaper’s overall…
The Los Angeles Times this morning has a story that’s actually old news to most Dallas Morning News subscribers: Dallas’ Only Daily is among two major newspapers in the country to include with its Sunday editions IMedia International Inc.-created CD-ROMs full of “movie previews, music samples, video games, comics, celebrity…
Five local radio stations–four on the FM side of the dial, one from the AM–are being sold after their parent company went and lost $168 million in a single quarter. Yesterday, Santa Monica, California-based Spanish-language broadcasting giant (though now, not so much) Entravision Communications Corporation announced that it was gonna…
By now you know things are not all rainbows and unicorns and cotton candy at The Dallas Morning News. They’re “reshaping the newsroom,” ya know, getting ready to fire somewhere between 50-100 (or more) newsroom employees in the coming days…sorry, they’re getting ready to offer them buyouts, my bad. That…
Daystar, a local broadcaster that carries T.D. Jakes, is having trouble getting blessed to air in Los Angeles. Daystar Television Network–the Marcus Lamb-owned powerhouse that bought KDTN-Channel 2 from KERA in 2003 for some $20 mil and has some 50 million viewers worldwide, so it claims–wants to buy a channel…
This morning, there’s a piece in The Dallas Morning News concerning some cheating going on at the Dallas Fire Rescue training academy. Specifially, it deals with how Lieutenant James Hunter, an instructor at the academy, helped trainee Desmond Luster prep for the test–by, ya know, giving him the answers. Handwritten…
Want to know what your daily newspaper will look like in the future? You’re looking at it, sort of. It’s your computer screen. Well, duh, you say. Haven’t we known that for at least 10 or 15 years? Yes, we have, smartypants, but Belo Corp.’s earnings report for the second…
Mike Rhyner, left, returns to host “The Hardline” with Greg Williams today. But Greggo all by his lonesome? Not bad, buddy. Not bad at all. Of my experience yesterday co-hosting “The Hardline” on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) with the mighty Greg Williams, let me say this: Radio is hard. Very,…
UNT journalism professor Jim Mueller’s new book deals with the days when Dubya was an owner of the Texas Rangers–ya ‘member, the good ol’ days. Jim Mueller, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of North Texas, recently found out how you wake up a classroom of 300 sleepy…
Sweet Greggo: This is the man with whom I will be spending five hours this afternoon on The Ticket. I could not be more excited. Seriously. Today might prove a lighter-than-usual day on Unfair Park–gotta prep for my afternoon gig, dig? From 3 to 7 p.m. today, I’ll be riding…
About 30 minutes ago, Rod Dreher posted this item to Dallas Morning Views, the editorial board blog for Dallas’ Only Daily: “Murray: NCLB doesn’t work In today’s Wall Street Journal, Charles Murray writes that No Child Left Behind doesn’t work, and the Texas education statistics President Bush uses to extol…
