The Associated Press as well as our friends at the Riverfront Times and STLMedia are all reporting that St. Louis’ newest media entrant, the Globe Democrat, is losing their sports staff.
“Why?” You ask, tilting your head slightly to the right like a little puppy.
Well dear reader, when you don’t pay your employees, they tend to hate your guts and then usually choose to stop working for you.
[Read More]We got an anonymous tip last night that succinctly read:
Globe Democrat laid off all employees because it ran out of money.
Hmm. Well the site is still up, and according to the St. Louis Beacon, the Globe Democrat has laid off three reporters and is “refocusing” on only certain sections of news. Namely sports and local politics.
Dan Rositano, who resurrected the Globe-Democrat name and began publishing the news website on Dec. 8, said news reporters Brian Flinchpaugh, Steve Birmingham and Lisa Watson lost their jobs on Monday.
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A dead guy in a cemetery?! Oh no!
Frankly the police tape seems a bitch much in this situation. Zombies would just walk right through that crap.
via Globe Democrat
For the second time in the last few weeks the Globe Democrat, St. Louis’ newest (but also totally old) news source, has made themselves look a little silly.
First there was their public tiff with Post Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz that columnated in an “Why is everyone always picking on me?” post from their sports editor…you know because guys that did nothing wrong always have to explain themselves…
Then today, the very Globe Democrat reporter that came in second place to Miklasz in the “Who is buying the Rams” sweepstakes stepped in it again. Way to go annoying radio voice, and overly inflated talking head Howard Balzer!
[Read More]We have a little game for you today!
Below is a screenshot we took last night of a St. Louis media website. Assuming you’ve never heard of either of the names on the picture below, what would you guess the name of this site was?
Here are you choices:
a) “The Toshiba website sponsored by St. Louis Globe-Democrat”
b) “Toshiba website sponsored by nothing…all I see is Toshiba.”
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That “other” St. Louis newspaper that closed its doors in 1986, before newspapers closing their doors was all the rage, is back…as a website.
Things looks good so far, and I really hope they do well since we need another strong news source in this town, but I do have a few questions:
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