Recent content by dwnsouth

I haven't been plugged in there for a while, but one reason Gannett is unlikely to sell Hattiesburg is they use the printing press to print USA Today for a pretty large region (including, I believe, New Orleans) which also led to some odd printing times for the American (they used to be an...

BTW, for those interested - rather than jumping into unemployment, Tim Doherty moved back to Hattiesburg where he is now on the news side.

I would imagine that's true. And I'm sure there's no chance any C-L editor will go on the record here with their thoughts on the move, but it'd be interesting to hear them.

or actually, moved to the C-L to cover USM. He moved from the Hattiesburg paper, where he'd been on the USM beat for years.

and to add to the timeline - Tim moved to the USM beat sometime in the fall of 2001

He's also not one of the people involved in this move - he left the USM beat in Hattiesburg a few months ago to take the Jackson State beat with the Clarion Ledger.

Don't think so - the new Southern Miss beat writer and Tim share a majority ethnicity. There's diversity issues in Gannett, certainly, but there's no diversity issues in this decision, unless there's some related move somewhere I don't know about. It might have more to do with keeping a...

Well, and there probably aren't a lot of people who can afford to just forego a couple of paychecks you expected right before Christmas, no matter how much your balls hurt.

It's even worse than it looks on first glance. Hattiesburg's beat writer, Kareem Copeland, moved up to cover Jackson State for the Clarion-Ledger a few months ago - I think October. Instead of consolidating positions then, and Tim keeping the job, Hattiesburg moved a young in-house reporter up...