More layoffs at Las Vegas Sun

Silver's a good guy with a bright future. Very well-rounded - Web, TV, radio, print, you name it. It's a shame.

 

Kantowski is without peer in a lot of markets. One of the best anywhere.

 

Hopefully he will land upright. He has talent to burn. For a guy who writes that many columns, he has great contact.

 

I wonder if the Sun publisher understands how embarrassing this is in the sports world? We should all send that bastard letters. Sometimes the publishers/owners don't even understand the excellence they have right under their greedy noses.

 

It's a terrible, terrible thing that the sports department was gutted. And as a laid-off journalist myself, I know what they are going through.

But for those who don't know, the Las Vegas Sun really isn't a daily newspaper. It's an eight-page section inserted into the Review-Journal. It focuses on enterprise.

Apparently, the family decided to not include sports in it anymore.

 

Earned a Pulitzer for coverage of workers' deaths on the Strip.

 

There's a rumor that the journalist who wrote that story was laid off. Is that true? If so, that should be national news.

 

Fredrick -- I don't know if that's true. I hope it isn't. What I was told was that the decorated journalist was a first-rate reporter but needed a lot of heavy lifting on the desk end, making that award a much more communal thing than usual.

 

I thought the Pulitzer winner got a job somewhere else a few months ago,

 

Haney did a very good job.

That's sheer horseshit.

 

Editorial writer Dave Clayton was part of the team that won the award, and he was laid off.