Photo: Nick LucchesiBrown said adios in a speech yesterday afternoonSomebody help me out here - is there an editors' note re: erstwhile St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Sylvester Brown in the paper today, or online?I have put in a request to chat with Editor Arnie Robbins and am waiting to hear back. In the meantime, I found a "note to readers" from Robbins and Managing Editor Pam Maples which was sent to and posted on a media blog. You can read the note to readers after the jump.
Lots of candidates for Daily RFT's weekly Ass Clown award. You know the rules: Vote early, vote often and nominate your own choice in the Comments thread. Back at you later with the results. 1. David Dausman -- Former Wellston police officer charged this week with corruption by a public servant, patronizing a prostitute and felony drug delivery. Dausman allegedly paid for sex with heroin and faces federal charges of making and possessing counterfeit money. 2. Tea Baggers -- This guy* group (righ
www.sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.comI carried on so with that blog yesterday about Sylvester Brown's tempestuous departure from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that I completely forgot to include some information about who will replace Brown as a metro columnist.Editor Arnie Robbins told me he's not sure if the paper *will* replace Brown. "Right now I am not even thinking about that," said Robbins. "That's something we'll have to think about."Brown was one of a handful of African Americans in the Post'
An ass clown who doesn't tea bag? Is there such a beast? Voting wrapped up Sunday morning, and by a convincing margin Daily RFT readers chose everyone who attended last week's Tax Day Tea Party at Kiener Plaza as the biggest ass clowns of the week. Congratulations tea baggers. When it came to embarrassing yourself in public last week, you licked the competition with 45 percent of the vote. Second place (with 22 percent of the vote) went to David Dausman, the allegedly crooked Wellston cop accuse
An All-Star Game cover of the Post-Dispatch now for sale on stltoday.com for $19.95.The All-Star Game was very kind to the hometown daily. The media-focused magazine Editor & Publisher yesterday reported that the Post-Dispatch increased its press run by 20,000 copies today and yesterday based on demand for its All-Star Game coverage. And the daily's website has seen even bigger gains. Post-Dispatch editor Arnie Robbins tells E&P that Stltoday.com had a record 2.7 million page views on Mo
Pam Maples, managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, announced late Friday that she'll be punching the clock at 900 North Tucker Boulevard for the last time on August 18 -- a big surprise to the newsroom's rank-and-file, according to folks who spoke to The Daily RFT.Executive editor Arnie Robbins told the staff he will not be replacing Maples. (Robbins held the ME job himself at one time, though the post was vacant for about a year when he left it to become editor.)Maples' farewell e-mail
Following up on yesterday's post containing departing managing editor Pam Maples' farewell e-mail to her St. Louis Post-Dispatch staffers... Executive editor Arnie Robbins' internal memo announcing Maples' sudden resignation late Friday appears after the jump. Robbins says in the long note, "To say that I will miss her is an understatement."Robbins also says he will not replace Maples.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom last night lost another four people: three news researchers (who compile material for reporters) and a photo assistant.Executive editor Arnie Robbins announced the cuts in a memo to staff this morning, saying, "We left a handful of positions unfilled over the course of the summer, and reduced some of our fixed costs (wire services, travel, etc.) to keep the job losses to a minimum. Still, it hurts and we are sorry to have to give you this news."According to a
Update on David Bonetti's retirement tomorrow from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Executive editor Arnie Robbins tells Daily RFT that he will not replace Bonetti, who reviewed all visual arts and architecture for the Post. "We will cover art well, however, because art is so important to a community and to the well-being of a community," says Robbins in an e-mail. "We don't have specific plans yet but I would expect that we would use some staff members and some freelancers. Our goal will be to co
Photo ViaJoe MahrLet's start with the bad news: the imminent departure of St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigative reporter Joe Mahr (who the RFT just named its Best Reporter of 2009 earlier this month.) You probably saw his byline, along with that of fellow muckraker Jeremy Kohler, atop this past weekend's smackdown of the municipal judicial system.A memo to newsroom staff says Mahr is moving on up to the Chicago Tribune, where he'll sniff out corruption and other shenanigans in the m
