From DMN to NYC

This might be old news, but I hear Rachel Cohen's left Dallas for AP's New York bureau. A good move?

 

Don't know where Rachel grew up, but she did attend Duke and seems pretty sharp.

I know the DMN isn't exactly a picnic these days. And College Station isn't exactly nirvana.

As is my constant refrain, I hope she can find a gig that provides a good balance between interesting and challenging work and the ability to have something of a personal life.

 

It moves her closer to family.

 

What is she doing there?

 

I believe Juliet Macur made the same move.

 

I'm pretty sure Rachel went to work for the AP. At least, I had dinner with one of her (former) co-workers two nights ago, and that's what he said. Guess he could have been wrong.

 

I read that DMN circulation was down 14 percent (some of that from the overstatement) so yeah, I would say it probably is a good move.

 

Any move out of Dallas is good.

 

The Morning News is certainly a shell of its former self, but it's still better than a lot of other places. All relative, I guess.

 

Perhaps, but if you were looking ahead what would you say the trend would be?

 

If you subscribe to the newspapers-are-dying trend, I agree totally. But if newspapers are going to stick around in some form and if the DMN has bottomed out and doesn't get worse, then I think you could argue there are worse places you could be. I realize those are two huge "ifs," however.