“Brett Kelman, who works at Gannett’s Nashville paper The Tennessean, wrote: ‘Dear @Gannett: I’ve worked for you for 11 years. We do important journalism in many great communities that depend on us. Through thick and thin, I have loved this job. Please don’t sell to these hedge-fund vampires.’
“Niraj Warikoo, who works at Gannett’s Detroit Free
Press, wrote: ‘If DFM takes over Gannett, it will basically be the end
of the American newspaper industry.’
“Tamara Chuang, who previously worked at the Denver Post and now works for a homegrown rival, wrote: ‘Ex Digital First Media employees and existing staff’ are ‘hyperventilating all over Twitter tonight in shock and disbelief. . . .’”
“Tamara Chuang, who previously worked at the Denver Post and now works for a homegrown rival, wrote: ‘Ex Digital First Media employees and existing staff’ are ‘hyperventilating all over Twitter tonight in shock and disbelief. . . .’”
—Brian Stelter, media journalist, “Gannett journalists anxious amid report that Digital First Media is circling the company,” CNN, Jan. 14, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: Buzzards in the newsroom.
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Ted Pease, Professor of Interesting Stuff, Trinidad, California. (Be)Friend The WORD
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don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If
you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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