RIP Ellen Soeteber

Not a sports person, but a strong newsroom leader in Fort Lauderdale, then St. Louis.

One of the two papers she led ran a good local obit (link below). The other didn't have a story in the print edition the day after she died and had wire coverage buried online, even though she had been ME and later retired to the area. Apparently, the parent company's "artificial intelligence" is encountering a few brainfarts in its early stages.

Ellen Soeteber, former editor of the Post-Dispatch, dies

 

Saw many references in my Facebook newsfeed from my former FTL colleagues. Too bad the paper itself kind of dropped the ball.

TRONC-ATED: Sun-Sentinel Fails To Report Death Of Larger-Than-Life Newsroom Figure!

 

the woman lived in fort lauderdale and used to be the paper's m.e. and no staff obit? That's pretty bad. Even a brief one would have been reasonable. Of course, the writer ripping the paper for dropping the ball is writing at an eighth-grade level, but that's another story.

 

Did anybody else view that embedded tronc employee video. Man, do you think they could have stuffed a few more corporate buzzwords in there? [sarcasm]. And I can't help but wonder if either of those two people have spent much time in an actual newsroom.