The Cincinnati Post winds down

playthrough · Dec 31, 2007

Damn, I'm gonna miss that blog too. Any word on where Rosecrans is landing?

BYH · Dec 31, 2007

Anyone who can hook me up with a copy of the last Post, please PM me. i'll cover all postage and then some.

imjustagirl2 · Dec 31, 2007

Find an employee. They'll get six copies.

John · Dec 31, 2007

playthrough said:

Damn, I'm gonna miss that blog too. Any word on where Rosecrans is landing?
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According to his final blog post, he's got a local offer of some kind and an offer to cover an MLB team elsewhere.

wickedwritah · Dec 31, 2007

In Cold Blood said:

I have no idea, but i wouldn't hold my breath on the Enquirer (Gannett) expanding its staff.
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I figured as much, but I know Birmingham took on at least one person in sports when that caper went down.

Angola! · Dec 31, 2007

John said:

playthrough said:

Damn, I'm gonna miss that blog too. Any word on where Rosecrans is landing?
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According to his final blog post, he's got a local offer of some kind and an offer to cover an MLB team elsewhere.
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That final blog post was a solid read and the comments were amazing considering what most of us hear from our readers. Good luck to C. Trent.

slappy4428 · Dec 31, 2007

wicked said:

In Cold Blood said:

I have no idea, but i wouldn't hold my breath on the Enquirer (Gannett) expanding its staff.
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I figured as much, but I know Birmingham took on at least one person in sports when that caper went down.
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There was no at least.
One. One person in sports. The columnist went to sports and they hired a news side reporter. And that's it, although the hired a news-side page designer a few months ago who closed up the PH.

JLawson · Dec 31, 2007

John said:

playthrough said:

Damn, I'm gonna miss that blog too. Any word on where Rosecrans is landing?
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According to his final blog post, he's got a local offer of some kind and an offer to cover an MLB team elsewhere.
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Maybe it's that Phillies job we saw posted not too long ago.

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 1, 2008

I checked the old cincypost.com URL just now, and got a surprise. It redirects to the old kypost.com domain (Kentucky Post, which the Cincy paper circulated on the south side of the Ohio) and that site has an entirely new look with the slogan "life in the (859)" (a reference to the area code in northern Kentucky).

Perhaps that online project we heard the speculation about is more than just a rumor, although it may just be a repeater for online stories from WCPO.

playthrough · Jan 1, 2008

Rats, my family in Cincy tried to get me a Post at 9 a.m. yesterday and they were all sold out. I wonder if there was any kind of extra press run.

Amazingly, last I checked, only three copies of the final Post were on ebay. Apparently the only nostalgia is among us.

HoopsMcCann · Jan 1, 2008

from yesterday's cincinnati post

A new Northern Kentucky news source will open its electronic door on Tuesday, a day afer the The Kentucky Post ceases publication Monday.

A new Web site, www.kypost.com, developed by E.W. Scripps and sharing content with WCPO-TV (Channel 9), goes online in the new year. It replaces the current kypost.com, which was part of the joint operating agreement between The Post and The Enquirer, which has been managed and maintained by Enquirer publisher Gannett.

Scripps and Gannett opted not to continue the agreement, and Scripps decided not to continue the newspaper on its own.

The new Web site, however, will strive to continue the tradition of strong Northern Kentucky coverage forged by The Kentucky Post, said Kerry Duke, managing editor of the site.

Duke, of Fort Thomas, is a 24-year veteran of The Post and most recently has been special projects editor. He is the only current Kentucky Post staff member at the new web site.

One full-time reporter, known as a content producer, will cover stories and post news to the Web as well as doing "backpack journalism," taking video camera and sound equipment into the field, said Duke.

The site also will use WCPO television reporters' coverage, including that of Northern Kentucky resident Shannon Kettler, who is being assigned to cover Northern Kentucky news and events. Other stories and information will come from freelance reporters and from the public.

"At this stage, kypost.com is very much a work in progress, so we'll be looking to the people using the site to help us determine what's most relevant to them," Duke said.

Adam Symson, vice president, interactive, for the E. W. Scripps Television Station Group, said the new site will welcome "citizen journalists" from the community.

"The tri-state is literally split into several geographical niches," said Symson. "One of the fastest growing areas is Northern Kentucky. We think we can do a great job of covering news and life in Northern Kentucky for the people who live south of the river. At the same time, we know there are businesses and advertisers south of the river that want to reach those folks south of the river and only those folks south of the river."

He said advertising on the Web site should be more affordable than ads on television stations or newspapers that have wider circulation areas.

"This is going to be an evolution," said Symson. "We're going to spend a lot of time and a lot of space listening to the readers."

The new site has the tag line "Life in the 859."

"We literally want it to be about life in the 859," said Symson, referring to the Northern Kentucky telephone area code. "Whatever's important and relevant to people south of the river, that is the mission of this site."

Duke said the coverage will concentrate on Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties. "It's our intention to honor the tradition of The Kentucky Post by building a vibrant online media service that captures the essence of what it means to live in Northern Kentucky.''

The site will include the Kentucky Post back issues and archived coverage from the newspaper.

It also will have video news, Associated Press stories and features created and distributed by the Scripps Media Center in Washington, D.C.

Local content will include breaking news, traffic advisories, prep sports scores and schedules, weather, local obituaries and feature stories on local programs and issues.

The new kypost.com will be hosted by WCPO-TV and its WCPO.com Web site. WCPO also is an E.W. Scripps company.

The new site is designed to be self-supporting, funded by advertising.
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but they did screw up by not hiring terry boehmker

2muchcoffeeman · Jan 1, 2008

HoopsMcCann said:

from yesterday's cincinnati post

A new Northern Kentucky news source will open its electronic door on Tuesday, a day afer the The Kentucky Post ceases publication Monday.

A new Web site, www.kypost.com, developed by E.W. Scripps and sharing content with WCPO-TV (Channel 9), goes online in the new year. It replaces the current kypost.com, which was part of the joint operating agreement between The Post and The Enquirer, which has been managed and maintained by Enquirer publisher Gannett.

Scripps and Gannett opted not to continue the agreement, and Scripps decided not to continue the newspaper on its own.

The new Web site, however, will strive to continue the tradition of strong Northern Kentucky coverage forged by The Kentucky Post, said Kerry Duke, managing editor of the site.

Duke, of Fort Thomas, is a 24-year veteran of The Post and most recently has been special projects editor. He is the only current Kentucky Post staff member at the new web site.

One full-time reporter, known as a content producer, will cover stories and post news to the Web as well as doing "backpack journalism," taking video camera and sound equipment into the field, said Duke.

The site also will use WCPO television reporters' coverage, including that of Northern Kentucky resident Shannon Kettler, who is being assigned to cover Northern Kentucky news and events. Other stories and information will come from freelance reporters and from the public.

"At this stage, kypost.com is very much a work in progress, so we'll be looking to the people using the site to help us determine what's most relevant to them," Duke said.

Adam Symson, vice president, interactive, for the E. W. Scripps Television Station Group, said the new site will welcome "citizen journalists" from the community.

"The tri-state is literally split into several geographical niches," said Symson. "One of the fastest growing areas is Northern Kentucky. We think we can do a great job of covering news and life in Northern Kentucky for the people who live south of the river. At the same time, we know there are businesses and advertisers south of the river that want to reach those folks south of the river and only those folks south of the river."

He said advertising on the Web site should be more affordable than ads on television stations or newspapers that have wider circulation areas.

"This is going to be an evolution," said Symson. "We're going to spend a lot of time and a lot of space listening to the readers."

The new site has the tag line "Life in the 859."

"We literally want it to be about life in the 859," said Symson, referring to the Northern Kentucky telephone area code. "Whatever's important and relevant to people south of the river, that is the mission of this site."

Duke said the coverage will concentrate on Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties. "It's our intention to honor the tradition of The Kentucky Post by building a vibrant online media service that captures the essence of what it means to live in Northern Kentucky.''

The site will include the Kentucky Post back issues and archived coverage from the newspaper.

It also will have video news, Associated Press stories and features created and distributed by the Scripps Media Center in Washington, D.C.

Local content will include breaking news, traffic advisories, prep sports scores and schedules, weather, local obituaries and feature stories on local programs and issues.

The new kypost.com will be hosted by WCPO-TV and its WCPO.com Web site. WCPO also is an E.W. Scripps company.

The new site is designed to be self-supporting, funded by advertising.
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but they did screw up by not hiring terry boehmker
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Damn straight. Most of the people I know in NKy who despise the Enquirer (and that's a lot) would have reconsidered had Gannett hired him.

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