Quote Originally Posted by Tradd View Post
I have a journalism degree and was a reporter for 18 months in the early 90s.

I used to love the Chicago Tribune. They’ve gone through a number of owners and staff just keeps getting cut. They’re moving from downtown offices to the Trib printing plant in an industrial complex not far outside downtown. That is quite the change. They left the Trib Tower in 2018. A bunch of buyouts just happened and long term staffers are leaving.

Makes me very sad.
The demise of big city newspapers is one of the astonishing things of the past 20 years. Two of my relatives were trained in journalism and worked on big city paper staffs for a while.

What astonishes me though, is the amount of writing that goes into the HERMANN newspaper. Recently their staff writer retired. I can’t even describe the number of column inches that guy produced weekly, I mean pages and pages of it. I wonder who got that job and how much he is being paid, but for young journalist who want an opportunity to write —this was it.