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Tom Christensen IS the sun-sentinel. He was there before Fred Turner, Craig Stanke, Sharon Robb, Omar Kelly, Scott Powers, Mitch Albom, Steve Hummer, Dave Joseph, Bill Plaschke, Gordon Edes, Mike Mayo, Jeff Otterbein, Ira Winderman, Kathy Laughlin, Brian White, Mike Berardino, Robbie Andreu...

I have to say, I can't agree with you deskdude... Trib's expanded boxes are weak. REAL WEAK. No walks, strikeouts for hitters, no number of pitches for pitchers, the pitching form is smaller than many papers run. And their roundup just echoes the box scores -- a roundup should complement the box...

George's List is excellent. As for Frank's, I don't know dave robinson. Where was he? Frank's list is good. Really like the inclusion of Tom Patterson. great guy.

I knew Kuykendall back when he worked in sports. He was a great guy on a great staff... He worked with Mark Leary, Scott Powers, Jeff Otterbein, Craig Stanke, Craig Davis, Robbie Andreu, Fran Labelle, Bill Plaschke, Mitch Albom, Gene Wojo, Andy Cohen, Tim Rosaforte, Dave Joseph, Mark Kazlowski...

I love Mike Fanin, who built that great sports department. Be interesting to see how sports fares, considering his roots. I'm sure he's not sleeping tonight.

Fred Turner is a hero. He'd hire people who he knew would work well together inside and outside of the office. Stories are legendary of Stanke, Powers, Leary, Andreu, Plaschke, Joseph, Wojo, Kaz and Rosaforte running bar bills through the roof: They'd put out the paper on a Saturday, the...

http://apse.dallasnews.com/2008/aug2008/082008cuts.html Found this interesting on APSE site. Certainly no punches held here. Good to see somebody telling it like it is and offering some ideas.

can we get this on the job site?

Couldn't agree with SF Express more. Well said. The support I've gotten from other SEs (and deputies) through APSE has been enormous. Just look at some past presidents: Glen Crevier (sp), Mike Fannin, Jerry Micco, Don Skwar. Ask them for advice or a favor, and you'll get an instant answer...

The Courant has (had) a tremendous Sports section. The reason it is (was) tremendous? It was the only paper in the nation to cover the Red Sox and the Yankees (also, the only paper to staff the Pats and Giants home and away as well). And that is Connecticut. Half the people like the Sox, half...

How can they have Hoppes and Cherwa? Can they justify both those guys with 23 deputies and 114 assistants? Maybe they can, just asking. Seems like a lot of Chiefs.

addendum: Nothing against Charlotte.... I didn't mean that as a bad post. ... I just mean I figured it was NYC or Boston. Never been to Charlotte and don't mean to rip it. I apologize up front!

Good gig, except that you have to live in Charlotte

The fact The Chicago Tribune's newsroom will go down by 14 percent, and newsrooms in Baltimore, LA, Allentown and Hartford were reduced more like 25 percent, is bull****, and doesn't go over real well in any of the non-Chcago cities that already despise Chicago to begin with. The Trib has...

I have to say, my SE doesn't suck either. And he's fighting for me and all the sports writers on our staff. I wish he was at APSE, because he deserves to go. And I'm sure many of the folks there are damn good, like my boss. I'm sure there are some who aren't but them drinking is no different...