Roanoke Times

Did someone voluntarily leave to rescind that layoff? Were other people laid off to prevent this layoff?

 

It smells more like a major advertiser/Hokies booster called up whoever is in charge and made them an offer they couldn't refuse ...

 

The Times also decided yesterday to stop having a local reporter covering statewide politics. So happy to be out of newspapers. What a mess.

 

Can't speak with much authority on what's going on there now, but that paper had one hell of a sports section back in the day. I interviewed for a sports desk job there in 1985 and figured it had to be one of the best sections in the country in a market of that size.

 

I would guess a local car dealer called them up and said, “This is what happens to our advertising if you don’t cover the Hokies anymore.”

 

Roanoke is a paper Buffett sold to Lee along with a bunch of other Virginia papers, including Richmond. Does Roanoke provide coverage of Virginia Tech to all the other papers in the state. And conversely, was the state politics reporter laid off made because the decision was made to have Richmond provide the coverage.

 

Y’all could just tag me.

 

Yeah I interviewed there around 2000 or so and was fairly impressed. It was family owned then, right?