Friday, September 21, 2007

Who is the CV enterprise reporter who just graduated to a major metro?

From Journalismjobs.com:

The Citizens' Voice, a growing 33,000 daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has immediate openings for enterprise, bureau and features reporters.

ENTERPRISE: Our previous ENTERPRISE reporter recently graduated to a major metropolitan newspaper, and we're agressively recruiting to find a talented replacement capable of covering issues in a deep, enterprising way. The ideal candidate will be able to judggle daily news coverage with mid- and project-level enterprise. We're looking to hire a difference maker with previous daily newspaper experience is required.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

One has to wonder if it's Janoski. But he probably only wrote one enterprise piece his entire time at the Voice.

Anonymous said...

Is Janoski gone?

Anonymous said...

The lovely Nicole? I guess they consider Scranton a major metro.
:)

Anonymous said...

It's Wade Malcolm. He got a job as night police reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Anonymous said...

Lovely Nicole? What the hell are you smokin'

Anonymous said...

I still say it's Janoski

Anonymous said...

Wade Malcolm was an enterprise reporter? Who knew?

Anonymous said...

That's a stretch. Wade graduated to the P-G's night cops reporter/obit writer.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07257/817418-122.stm

Anonymous said...

The item to go to Kingston was not on the Council meeting agenda Tuesday night. Nor was an even bigger item. Not only did Forty Fort Council vote to change Ambulance providers, it voted to change ALS providers from Northeast Paramedics to Trans Med Ambulance.

What is disturbing about this is the following: Trans Med is owned by Pat Judge (Forty Fort's representative to the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority and a friend of Joe Chacke and Betty Mascelli), Judge Michael Conahan and others. Betty Mascelli's son is employed by Trans Med. At the Council meeting Tuesday night, Joe Chacke asked FIVE times for a motion to be made to change ALS providers, he kept looking in Betty Mascelli's direction and nudging her to make the motion. This is huge ethics violation on both their parts. Pat Judge made several phone calls before the meeting asking certain members of council to vote for his company. By the way, the neither the vote to change ALS providers or to put the Forty Fort Ambulance out of business were unanimous votes.

Why change ALS providers? Well the truth of the matter is that Kingston cannot handle the EMS call volume as it stands now. When Kingston cannot man a call, Trans Med Ambulance is called in to cover the overflow. There have been been many complaints made by the firefighers in Kingston about the abilities of Trans Med's people. They have been ignored or swept under the rug because the owners of Trans Med supported Jim Haggerty's State Senate campaign. One classis example is that of a Kingston Firefighter who at the time of the incident also worked part time for Trans Med. There was a serious problem at a call in Kingston that was responded to by Trans Med. The Kingston Firefighter wrote a formal complaint and gave it to the administration in Kingston. A few days later, the Firefighter in question was called into the office by an owner of Trans Med and was lambasted for making the complaint. The individual had the ORIGINAL copy of the complaint in his hand.

At the meeting Tuesday night, Forty Fort Council was lied to; they were told that Kingston has 6 firefighters on duty during the day and five at night. Actually the number is 5 and 4. What does this mean to the people of Kingston or Forty Fort? Well at night, the ambulance from Kingston responds with one person. A fire engine also responds, if there are no volunteers available to drive the ambulance, then the engine is parked out of service and the firefighter from the engine drives the ambulance. With the additional call volume of Forty Fort added into the mix, the situation will only get worse. BUT, that's good news for Trans Med because it means more business for them. Forty Fort Council was told that if things work out after 18 months, then Kingston would hire two more paramedics, but the truth of the matter is Kingston needs those two paramedics right now.

Forty Fort Council was also lied to the other night when they were told that the paramedic unit from Trans Med responds from Dilley Street in Forty Fort. The truth of the matter is that more often than not, the unit is actually responding from Ashley.

Northeast Paramedics has been providing ALS services for Forty Fort without complaint for almost seven years. They used to provide backup ALS services for Kingston until Haggerty needed support for his Senate campaign. The only reason they were cast aside in Kingston and now in Forty Fort is because of the good old boy network.

The sad part about the whole mess is that the merger talks are a good idea. The Forty Fort Ambulance Board was working with the Forty Fort Fire Company to transition responsibility to the Fire Company. The idea was that the Ambulance Board was going to use its reserve fund to buy a new ambulance and give it to the Fire Company as part of the ongoing consolidation with Kingston. But things were not going fast enough for certain people coupled with an opportunity to give a politically connected private ambulance more business.

The above facts are out there for anyone who is willing to do some digging and report the truth. Are you up to the challenge?

Anonymous said...

you yahoos need to take a deep breath

Anonymous said...

Wow...MUCH more than I ever wanted to know about ambulance service.

Doesn't even move the needle on my give-a-shit meter.

Anonymous said...

Holy fcuk! I didn't know Judge was an owner of Trans Med. That's news to me. I thought Homer Berlew and Fred Buckman owned the place. Please advise.

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Anonymous said...

Anyone want to go back to the Marino thing? He did resign yesterday. The Morning Call had it 100%.

Anonymous said...

The T-T is starting to ask some tough questions(finally)of the right people.

Could it be that they're on to something?

Anonymous said...

Homer and Fred and just front men. Nice watered down story in the T-L the other day. No mention of the ethics violations. Could it be because of Republican Rich Connor?

Anonymous said...

CV writes today that an overweight woman with unnatural haircolor accidentally hit a child, and that the child's mother let out a ghastly shriek. Nice adjectives for screenwriting; not so great for news reporting.
-Cue haunting music. -

Anonymous said...

I do find it interesting that Pat Judge wanted to stay on the Discipline Panel that is hearing the Lokuta case. It is the same panel that will hear testimony from his business partner Judge Conahan.

Anonymous said...

Who is the interloper going on about the ambulance thing?
You wrote a book on here, honey, how about you just submit your tail, er tale, as a Letter to the Editor.

Anonymous said...

Because you're supposed to be a fucking journalist trying to uncover stories like that. Damn you NEPA journalists are lazy. That's a great story and it was handed to you from A to Z. I'm glad I left NEPA. And being in management I would assign this story in a second if I saw it here on this blog. It's news that the good ol boy network is alive and well in 2007.

Anonymous said...

Good old boy killed most of the story.

Let's connect the dots here: On the T-L side, Pat Judge (a co-owner of the ambulance company in question), Republican king maker; friends with the Flacks, the Henrys and the rest of the money people behind "Connor's Newspaper."

On the C-V side, Judge Michael Conahan, on the board of directors at Louis DeNaples bank.

11:18 is right, both papers are filled with lazy reporters coupled with editors who have no authority to report the news if the news offends certain individuals

Anonymous said...

I still say it's Janoski

Anonymous said...

Sounds to me as if Connor is going broke and he's pulling out all the stops to keep the TL afloat

TL publisher sells newspaper in Texas
Richard L. Connor will remain associated with the Fort Worth Business Press.
Times Leader staff



Times Leader publisher Richard L. Connor has sold the Fort Worth Business Press, which he had owned since 2001, to Brown Publishing Co., a family-owned publishing group based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The sale was finalized on Sept. 19.



No purchase price was disclosed. Connor will remain associated with the newspaper under a consulting agreement with Brown Publishing Co., said Roy Brown, the company’s CEO and president.

“I will continue to write a weekly column, make story suggestions and represent the newspaper at our signature events honoring important citizens in Fort Worth,” Connor said. “Roy Brown and I are viewing this as the beginning of a partnership.”

Connor assembled a group of investors and purchased The Times Leader for $65 million in July 2006 from The McClatchy Co., which owned it briefly after purchasing the Knight Ridder newspaper chain.

Connor said his decision to sell the Fort Worth paper was driven in part by the demands of running The Times Leader, one of few United States daily newspapers operating in a competitive market. “For the last year I have been running two newspapers, 2,000 miles apart, which is difficult, if for no other reason than the travel involved,” he wrote in his Business Press column this week.

Connor and several other investors purchased the Business Press in October 2001. The paper was within days of going out of business when he bought it, Connor said, but subsequently became profitable. His wife, Deborah, helped revive the business and was active in its management until recently, when the family moved to the Back Mountain.

Revenues for the Business Press in 2006 were $3.3 million, up by 19 percent from 2005, Connor said. When Connor purchased the paper six years ago, he said, revenues were about $900,000. Brown said the purchase of the Business Press is part of his company’s move into the business-journal niche.

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Anonymous said...

Is this post dead now? Or can someone "connect the dots" to Mayor Tony George's plan to Give TransMed the City of Wilkes-Barre's overflow?