Recent content by Tucsondriver

Great area, good newsroom culture and reasonably good job security in the 3-to 5-year time frame, but plan on driving for Uber for about 20 hours a week or living with your parents if you're actually serious about applying. $44k doesn't go far in one of the nation's priciest housing markets...

Sounds like once Pearlman fully thought the story through he wasn't comfortable with it. Does it look bad after he teased it? Sure, but I'd like to think most of us would do the same after carefully evaluating the ethical considerations of a delicate story, assuming that's what's going on here.

From Ken Doctor earlier this year on Digital First Media auction: Though C.E.O. John Paton’s outspoken digital-first, print-last theories didn’t win many friends among his peers, he forced the bedraggled, post-bankrupt Journal Register company into the new millennium. Taking over in 2010, he...

I went with 10 years but I'll echo what others have said in terms of the major nationals and hyperlocals hanging on well beyond that. Will the NYT cease publishing a print edition that's roughly the equivalent of what we have today? Very doubtful. A version of USA Today will still be available...

Most, as expected after the sale to Trib publishing, were on the printing/delivery side. Nine in the newsroom, "almost all" from U-T TV. A lot of forking jobs any way you look at it. 178 employees are laid off at the San Diego Union Tribune following sale of newspaper. | UTSanDiego.com

Thanks for sharing. Very nicely done.

"As people tire of bringing up his legal troubles, Mariotti will be judged on his work, the people he hires, his columns and his reporting skills. But just because the guy is well-known (infamous, even) and controversial doesn’t mean it’s going to work." This statement, from a SF Bay Area...

Not much.

That would never happen.

It's all out there anyway. I'm not sure how rehashing does any more damage to Mariotti. Winning a libel case against the editor of Chronicle would vindicate him - at least in his mind. That's all predicated on the supposition that he'd actually have a case. I don't think he does.

I assume you mean that Cooper's tweet is ethically questionable. Is it libelous? I would say no because the (since-expunged) charges and convictions are public and Mariotti is a public figure.

To say he's not popular among industry peers would be an understatement, so there's that. His convictions were expunged - not overturned. I don't believe it's libelous to refer to him as a "girlfriend batterer" (that's the tweet SF Chronicle Editor Audrey Cooper put out that Mariotti was...

Mariotti's intro column: What the heck Were You Thinking?: The Lightning Rod of Sports Journalism Explains What on Earth He's Doing In San Francisco | Feature | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly

I wouldn't call the Examiner a shopper. More so than you'd expect from a metro daily for sure, but not exactly a shopper.

SF Weekly, a sister paper of the Examiner, has a story about the Mariotti hire noting what the new editor views as similarities between him and Hunter S. Thompson, claiming that hire represents the company's intent to "dust off the spirit of gonzo." New Editor, Controversial Sports Writer --...