Friday, May 19, 2006

Welcome Megan Reiter to the Scranton Times-Tribune

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Formerly of the Punxsutawney Spirit, Megan Reiter is a new reporter at the Scranton Times-Tribune. It's not clear who she is replacing. ...

Bob Kadluboski was the man behind controversial CV advert

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The towing company operator put an ad in the Voice before this week's election -- an ad that criticized two candidates but didn't sa...
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CV gets ripped by J-prof at libel trial

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CV reporters Ed Lewis and James Comny were portrayed Thursday as inferior reporters and editor Justin O'Donnell was portrayed as asleep ...
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Weather man loses arbitration case against WYOU

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Phil Yacuboski of WYOU was trying to get out of a one-year no-compete clause, according to Kevin Amerman's story. No dice.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

CV might be a little screwed in its libel case

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It's hard to tell, but if you read Terrie Morgan-Besecker's story closely you learn (or think you learn) that the CV wants to put it...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

How the pros report the potential sale of their newspaper

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With relentless, well-sourced, astute reporting. That's what the Philadelphia Inquirer, in the same situation as the TL, has been doing....
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Frank Andrews Shimkus wins in primary

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The former (and perhaps future) WYOU-TV news director won the democratic primary Tuesday in his bid to join the Pennsylvania state legislatu...

The TL's Matt Golas lays out the newspaper's goals

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"We will continue to be the only media here to take chances, try something different, break a rule once in a while, surprise you."...

CV libel case goes to trial

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Terrie Morgan-Besecker was at day one of a trial involving the CV and a businessman who the newspaper alleged had ties to organized crime an...

Casey Jones talks about Scott Lynett's hot body

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You can't beat a column about a publisher's "pale, pasty body." Casey also ensures that he won't have a job in the new...
Sunday, May 14, 2006

Enjoy the wild reader responses to the AP's W-B story

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The Times Leader apparently does not moderate comments during the weekend, otherwise it would have stripped out the shots at the newspaper l...
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Letter writer: Two-paper town is good

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Michael Stair of Mountain Top (or Mountaintop, if you like) writes the CV editor to report that he likes having two papers. It's far dow...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Your mom will be reading about Wilkes-Barre on the AP wire

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Times Leader alum Mike Rubinkam wrote a takeout about the Wilkes-Barre newspaper war that moved on the wire Friday. Matt Golas, Dave Iseman,...

Hanover Area school board asks judge to toss TL FOI lawsuit

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John Davidson reports that the lawyers for Hanover Area want to sit on the terms of a settlement it reached with the parents of a disabled s...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

TL's Golas to CV's Dobo: Drop dead

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Well, not quite. But TL editor Matt Golas is crying in his beer that Nichole Dobo didn't use his money quote in her Sunday takeout on th...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Here's another self-serving story from the TL about how its demise would be a loss for humanity

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Seriously, read it all the way to the end of this Renita Fennick story. When it's not crowing about how much the newspaper cares about t...
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Monday, May 08, 2006

Shit: CNHI visits Wilkes-Barre, may buy the TL

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Iseman and his cohorts will be wishing the Lynetts swooped in if Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., aka the Alabama public employees retirem...
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The TL, according to the Voice, may be fucked

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An uncommonly solid read on the future of the TL, as well as the future of the larger Wilkes-Barre newspaper market. There's real report...
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Dave Iseman says it's tense in the TL newsroom

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Don't read this if you're looking for a real peek into the newsroom or into Dave Iseman's recent experiences there. Do read this...

Scranton Times publishes puff piece on Frank Andrews Shimkus

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Incredible. The Scranton Times profiles a guy who a) lied about his name, b) worked as a TV news director while publicly kicking around runn...
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