Friday, February 29, 2008

Former TL sports writer Doug Pape named new Luzerne County manager

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Doug Pape, a onetime Times Leader sports reporter who ended up in county government, has managed to become the top non-elected official in L...
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The Scientologists are coming! (Maybe)

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Not that there's anything wrong with that. But the breathless top story in Thursday's Times-Tribune of Scranton could have used some...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Charges dropped against Times-Shamrock owned Orlando Weekly staffers

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"All sides claimed victory" in the case of three Times-Shamrock employees accused of aiding prostitution through ads in the T-S-ow...
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Towanda carrier killed in auto crash

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David Mingos , 40, died Wednesday morning after his van hit a tree outside Towanda . The Windfall man was on his way to deliver Wednesday...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Times-Tribune story on Sorvino makes Defamer

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Gretchen Wintermantel's story about Paul Sorvino's "film" The Trouble With Cali – a story detailing tens of thousands of ...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lou Kirchen named regional VP of Local TV LLC

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Lou Kirchen, the general manager of WNEP, has been named regional vice president for parent company Local TV LLC. Kudos.
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Monday, February 25, 2008

An ode to Dave Konopki and Jerry Kellar

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Chris Hine, a sports writer for the student newspaper at Notre Dame and a NEPA native, writes about how he learned to be a pro by seeing how...
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Whaddya expect for a quarter?

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The daily Citizens' Voice will be a quarter until further notice. "The change will make The Citizens’ Voice the best buy in Luzerne...
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Former WYOU reporter John Nugent gets a job in South Carolina

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From the News Blues Web site: " WCIV-4-ABC in Charleston, SC (Market #100), has hired John Nugent as sports director. Nugent , you ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Frank Andrews Shimkus, Gabrielle Prutisto and Joe Pilchesky

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A strange story keeps getting stranger. Former WYOU reporter Gabrielle Prutisto told Throop police that she found funny footprints outside h...
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Low production value video battle of the entertainment weeklies

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Not to be outdone by the crazy kids at the570.com, the Weekender has posted a meet-the-staff video. We offer it without further comment.
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Renee Puchalski named regional ad sales boss for Times-Shamrock

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Renee Puchalski, a longtime sales rep for Times-Shamrock, will coordinate buys across the T-S chain, The Sunday Review of Towanda reports. K...
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Rich Connor of the TL: The New York Times sucks

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Times Leader Editor Richard Connor on the NYT McCain story: "The paper’s staff is laden with reporters and editors whose work shows the...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Times-Shamrock Shamokin employee charged with theft

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Christine Zablosky, late of the The News-Item in Shamokin, has been charged with theft after she allegedly pocketed $43,000 (!) in subscript...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Photoshopping images at the570.com for fun and profit

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An eagle-eyed reader of the new Times Shamrock entertainment site the570.com noticed that a picture of singer Nate Hosey of the band Maybe S...
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Scott Wasser returns to the TL

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Scott Wasser, onetime Wilkes-Barre Times Leader sports editor, is coming back into the fold – as managing editor for news and business. Joe ...
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Dave and Vicki Iseman are related, heyna or no?

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12:27 p.m. Friday update: Iseman replies, "Ouch! I am her." 11:44 p.m. update: The point was made that we should ask Iseman (Dave...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

WNEP back in the day

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Two NEP posts in a row: Through the magic of Google News Alerts, we came across this somewhat strange blog by a dude who used to work at WNE...
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You, too, could be the WNEP webmaster

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WNEP of Moosic is looking for a new webmaster, a job that the station interestingly didn't advertise on journalismjobs.com. The station ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Farewell, Beale's Bites

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As many people have already noted, Howard Beale of Beale's Bites – a most excellent blog that covers broadcast journalism in NEPA – post...
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