Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Cincy | Riddle: When is a rumor not a rumor?
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That question is brought to you following my recent tour through the secret world of Gannett Blog.
ReplyDeleteThe easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown
ReplyDeleteThe best way to keep a secret between two people is to kill the other person.
ReplyDeleteA rumor is not a rumor when it turns out to be true.
ReplyDeleteThe following comment first appeared yesterday on this post on The Daily Bellwether, a Cincinnati-based news and information website. It concerns Cincinnati Enquirer Executive Editor Tom Callinan; Publisher Margaret Buchanan, and Desert Sun Executive Editor Rick Green. Stay tuned.
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Callinan appears to be telling people selectively that his days as the Enquirer's pretend editor-in-chief are over. He was a no-show at an editors meeting Monday and has been acting furtively. This has everything to do with the demise of the Enquirer and its out-of-town ownership. Also, Callinan going through the motions of leadership for seven years while collecting a salary that the paper can no longer afford. Marge Buchanan should end the charade and admit that she's been the real editor all along. If she doesn't, Callinan's successor -- Rick Green perhaps -- is destined to be driving Miss Daisy every day.
10:06 has solved the riddle.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't know whether the riddle applies in Cincy yet.
ReplyDeleteCallinan is a certified rumor.
ReplyDeleteWell, Rick Green used to work in Cincinnati and there even might be a few people there who remember him (as part of the Athens, Ohio mob) but I don't know if I'd trade Palm Springs for Cincinnati, Ohio no matter how much money Gannett waved at me.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this is going to bring Newsache out of retirement again. He surfaced during last year's layoffs and nothing should get his blood racing but a bloodbath at the top of the Enquirer. The website is still active: http://cincynewsache.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI know Rick Green is crazy about Ohio and really loved his time in Cincinati -- despite how Callinan treated him after he exited Phoenix and replaced Ward Bushee. But the word out West is he's far happier in Palm Springs where The Desert Sun has become a really great paper since Rick arrived. He's been able to do the things that Callinan wouldn't allow. He recruited me to Palm Springs about five years ago, and even though it's not quite the size of a metro, we're doing big-paper work. It would be a huge loss if he left.
ReplyDeleteRick Green is in St. George for a meeting with corporate. He's either in for either a big promotion (Cincinnati) or demotion (St. George). He was apparently offered the top editor job at St. George recently but turned it down.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone leave sunny and easy California for dreary and uptight Porkopolis? The Cincy Enquirer can't hold a candle to the paper it once was, and circulation has declined 100,000 over the last decade, to the current and astonishing 157,000. The staff has been decimated, coverage and display is determined by quirky consumer polling, management is beaten down and timid, and the editor's balls are owned by the publisher.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone walk into this mess, especially from California, where the future is more promising? There is no direction but down in Cincy, and out. If ever a newspaper needed competition to ensure its own survival, here it is.
Larry Beaupre to the rescue.
ReplyDeleteIf Callinan is leaving, you might also want to cast your eyes toward Reno also.
ReplyDeleteCallinan taking vacation during election week coverage which included his not being around when people on his staff got the axe as part of Gannett’s most recent cost savings moves leads one to believe that the daily Bellwether’s post is more than just a rumor.
ReplyDeletePublishers are taking on editorial roles in places other than Cincy as well. I sure hope the communities these papers serve don't think they're reading real news.
ReplyDeleteso what's the riddle about Riddle?
ReplyDeleteI believe the Corporate meeting at St. George, Utah, is to brief people on the status of that paper's paywall.
ReplyDeleteLove returning to the Enquirer would be interesting as would where Callinan would land…perhaps a role at an area university where he once sought a job.
ReplyDeleteWhen I've been asked in the past about an opening in Cincinnati, I have told people the following:
ReplyDeleteI recall an editor at one newspaper where I worked saying she dreamed of some day being the top editor in Cincinnati. She has strong ties to Ohio. I do not know whether she is still interested in the job.
She is Carolyn Washburn, now executive editor of The Des Moines Register. She's been in that job since September 2005.
Rumor: Dave Hunke came to work today. Again, just a rumor.
ReplyDeleteI would love some insight on how the paywalls have done..There are a few EE at mid-sized Gannett papers that had amazing years that could easily move up to Cincy.
ReplyDeleteJust get used to running pictures of 20-something cleavage everyday as the top story over and over again.
Rick Green is good, plays ball with corporate and wants to get back to Ohio, so he's your man.
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