Since no one outside of the LEO staff seems to know much about Chris Ferrell, the Nashville-based publisher who bought the local alt-weekly three months ago, I decided it was time for The Ville Voice to learn something about him.
So I crashed the mag’s party yesterday, pulling Ferrell away from beers with the staff at […]

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There’s no place like state government for former TV types. The state’s Finance Cabinet announced today it has hired Valeria Cummings, a former anchor for Lexington’s WKYT-TV, as its new spokesperson.
Cummings was an anchor and reporter at the Lexington station for 22 years. In 2005, she left to become a communications specialist with Kentucky American […]

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Alternate headline: Payback is Good.
Irv Maze was appointed to a Distict Court Judgeship by Gov. Steve Beshear just after the election filing deadline. That sets off a chain reaction whereby Mayor Jerry Abramson can appoint a new county attorney to fill out Maze’s term. Actually, we thought Maze was going to act before the deadline, […]

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Does this LEO cover give you the idea that Bobby Felner is a bit of a sinister character?
Christopher Hall’s lengthy cover story reviews everything’s that’s gone on so far, and includes fresh interviews with former associates of Felner’s at Illinois. It even credits Page One for uncovering e-mails and the no-confidence vote against Felner.
So here’s […]

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Larry Wooldridge, an assistant principal at duPont Manual High School, was named principal at the high-ranking high school on the first day of classes. Wooldridge was the school’s athletic director prior to becoming an assistant principal in 2006.
Former principal Beverly Keepers was named Spalding University’s College of Education dean on July 15. She had been […]

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“What the news is feeding us is so different from what is happening.”
Insight on media from actress and ex-porn star Jenna Jameson, in Esquire.
Promotion?: It’s not that we don’t believe that David Daley’s move to Lifestyle Editor at the C-J was a big promotion, since he’s now in charge of Features AND Velocity, which we’re […]

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Both the New Albany Tribune and the Jeffersonville Evening News named new publishers today.
The papers, just across the Ohio and often the training ground for Louisville reporters, are owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI), which political fans around here know as the home of reporter and commenter Ronnie Ellis.
Both new publishers were promoted from […]

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We noticed something new at the Courier-Journal this morning — perhaps the first evidence of the new publisher’s influence, or maybe not.
In the physical paper (I know, most of you don’t see it), there’s a little stamp-sized box at the top of the paper’s latest story on the Robert Felner-U of L fiasco. It says: […]

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Garson Uncensored: News of the hiring of a new publisher at the local paper made the front page this morning, and online, Gannett seems to be allowing comments from the paper’s critics about the hire to stay posted. It’s not pretty. [C-J]
What Would You Do?: If you were at the center of a scandal involving […]

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UPDATED (1:55 P.M.) – A reader writes that maybe Mr. Garson is a little thin-skinned, or the C-J locals want to make him feel welcome, by censoring a comment on the C-J report of Garson’s hiring. The comment referred to the controversy in Sioux Falls over distribution of free publications, including this: “The City of […]

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