First: Gannett just announced another week of furloughs at the Courier-Journal for employees. Will happen in the first quarter of 2010.
And…
Stephen George just announced, via press release, that he’s leaving LEO Weekly to become editor of the Nashville City Paper on January 11, 2010. Sarah Kelley, news editor since May 2008, will become editor. That makes Kelley the first female editor of the paper. And that’s big news for Louisville.
“It has been a distinct honor to be able to write and report about my hometown on the unique and vital platform LEO Weekly offers, and part of me is sad to walk away,” George said. “At the same time, I am excited to join the well established team at the Nashville City Paper, which covers the city’s news, business, sports and entertainment with the kind of energy and vigor to which I’ve become accustomed.”
Fun times in the Louisville newsie world these days.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Debby Yetter // Dec 1, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Our loss. But is sounds like a great job. Good luck Stephen.
2 garyguss // Dec 1, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Sorry to hear Steven is going
3 john // Dec 1, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Congrats to Steven and Sarah. However, I do have to admit that I’m a bit disappointed that Jonathan Meador isn’t going to Nashville too.
4 Optimistic Dem // Dec 1, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Stephen has done such a wonderful job with the LEO and we will miss him so much. Good luck in Nashville. Sarah congrats I am very much looking forward to a female heading the ship…just wish we didn’t have to lose Stephen for that to happen.
5 Jonathan Meador // Dec 2, 2009 at 1:35 am
gosh, me too: I hear the hookers there are fabulous.
6 john // Dec 2, 2009 at 10:43 am
Whatever your source of sex is does not concern me. What does bother me is reading news stories where the writer clearly displays their biases and adds meaningless allusions in an effort to be cute. For example:
“In many respects it is not unlike the Two Minutes’ Hate depicted in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ wherein the masses are fed rhetorical red meat via gigantic telescreens for the purposes of riling their emotions to the point of fervor — except tonight’s program runs just over 90 minutes, is devoid of hate and everybody is really, really nice.”
7 What's Worse! // Dec 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Steve’s big accomplishment was like Kodak–he brought color to LEO. That was a good thing.
But his let’s take one side and ignore the other side was sad. Yes, I agreed with many of those one-sided articles but why not let the other side speak. He mishandled reporting on the homeless issues by simply taking Nina Mosley’s word for it and not checking the facts. So he tours a homeless shelter and says A-OK without asking the homeless themselves what they think of living 50 to a classroom size room or given no toilet paper to wipe their asses. check out the latest Louisville Mojo story on that scandal. He got it wrong on West Louisivlle by insisting on the negative and forgeting the positive. If you were attacked in the pages he would refused to run a reply. His best hires was getting in Bailey and seeing that nut case was given the door. The Bridge story was super too! For my money I will take journalism standards of the CJ over the one-sided stories of LEO. I am hopeful that Sarah with her record will insist on balanced stories in the future to make up for the many unbalanced stories of the past. Good luck Sarah and hey assign Bailey to live in the men’s shelter for a week and have him write aobut that before Sixty Minutes does it. Good luck Steve, start anew and get it right in Nashville. You will love the downtown music scene which is ten times better (sans MMJ) than here. Bon Jovi here in Louisville this summer can never make up for Bruce Springsteen in Nashville last month.
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