The mass turnover has disheartened the paper’s remaining staff, whose mood Musto has described as “dour.” By releasing esteemed, long-tenured writers in favor of cheaper alternatives, the Voice.

covering the Jodi Arias trial, conducted a satellite interview regarding the rescued kidnapping victims in Cleveland. Once the interview was presented in split-screen format, viewers could notice a series of vehicles passing by in the background of both shots, revealing that the anchors were staging a satellite interview from the same parking lot.

Ignoring the idea that selling a pill that can prevent pregnancy increases freedoms of a generally marginalized league of humans — teenagers — parents and other caring individuals argue if the pill will give kids the idea that carnal appetites come without apprehension or consequence.

“Newspapers got hit with the double whammy of the recession and increasing competition from the internet,” John Hammer wrote in an article posted online on Tuesday, “and we join a long list of newspapers that have closed their doors.

The editorial went on to say that the union was decertified “after its key organizers were ‘linked’ to communism by sensationalistic reporting in this newspaper, reporting that was based on flimsy evidence.”.

Local CBS affiliate WFMY News 2 made waves this week when they announced the hiring of anchor Julie Luck, formerly of WGHP, the local Fox affiliate. Luck is beloved among Triad residents, especially YES! Weekly.

“Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal.

Green, who is also our Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County reporter, placed third in the serious columns category (as opposed to lighter columns). The category was judged on three columns that covered civic engagement among young people, economic development and reasons that poor people don’t vote.

Correspondent Poppy Harlow reported on the decision with an emphasis on its impact to the two young men convicted of rape, mentioning their “promising futures” and academic achievements. Harlow, who showed excessive sympathy for the young men, made no mention of the victim apart from summarizing the case.

Supposedly, they won. In several North Carolina news outlets, statements from Wake County Schools officials thank the advocacy groups that got involved.

Kim Genardo, formerly of NBC Raleigh affiliate WNCN, interviewed Gov. Pat McCrory on Feb. 12. Ten days later, the governor’s office announced that she’d be serving as the administration’s next communications director.

The study was conclusive: People who consistently eat fried foods are more apt to die of stroke. Plantbased diets are healthier. Alcohol and sweets, when used constrictively, are fine though not healthy.

Tony Wilkins and social distortion Tony Wilkins, the newly appointed District 5 representative on Greensboro City Council, is our kind of guy: approachable and reasonable, a man who knows his way around a good sandwich and also the new media environment.

Even Emmy-Award winners can act like total creeps. This from Gawker’s “Journalismism” section: CNN reporter Tom Foreman has written a letter to President Obama — Every. Single. Day — since his first inauguration four years ago. Accurately calling his behavior “obsessive,” “bizarre” and likening him to a “stalker” in the title, Gawker.

A story that local blogger, whisteblower and sometimes political candidate George Hartzman has been aggressively pitching to local media for almost two years finally got a bite, from no less than Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone..

Regardless of how he feels about grits, it’s a significantly better nickname than “wet fart,” a term blogger Fecund Stench used to refer to Gauger in May. Let’s call him “Porridge” instead!.

Mayor Allen Joines is celebrating Herbalife’s decision to locate a manufacturing facility and bring almost 500 jobs to Winston-Salem, but the California-based nutritional supplement company has weathered some storms since hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told investors and journalists that he believes the operation is a pyramid scheme.

Like the article, this “newspaper-magazine” is all about hustling. The inside back page lays out how much it costs to have an article written about a business, up to offering an entire issue to promote one advertiser for $1,500.

And I’m not insensitive to the challenges of maintaining a struggling enterprise with scarce resources. Strangely enough, around the time of Square One’s heyday I was part of a collective operating Food Not Bombs’ kitchen out of St. Mary’s House.

Pitt was accused of having a conflict of interest in selling land to the Housing Authority of Winston- Salem of which he was the former chairman. After he completed his sentence, the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.