DMN update

[SockPuppet]

Word is that Cowlishaw hoped to take the buyout so that it would ease his move to ESPN.com. He and Blackistone, apparently, weren't offered the buyout.
In addition to Cowlisahaw, Blount and Dwayne Bray are headed to ESPN.com
Everything said here about Yates is spot on. But, hey, he's a suit. He'll be fine.

 

[Tracy Ringolsby]

Blackistone is fine as long as he can sit at his desk, ready the wires and find something to rewrite. heaven forbid he would actually go to an event and get a fresh idea or research something on his own.

 

[Editude]

A lot of factors contributed to the demise of the DMN, but Yates' unfortunate ascension was a big one.

 

[2underpar]

anyone know if the great noel nash is moving on as well?
heard he was espn bound. I think he was some kind of editor.

 

[lone star scribe]

Noel has been gone for some time now.

 

[2underpar]

summarily dismissed, or of his own design?

 

[lone star scribe]

Left for another job, but I'm not sure where. Too many new destinations for DMNers to keep straight.

 

[Marvin]

Yess, Noel left for ESPN.com to take over NFL coverage. He was an editor at DMN and they had been talking for a while. I believe he left between the time it was announced that buyouts were coming down and when they actually did.

 

[Rockbottom]

Yess, Noel left for ESPN.com to take over NFL coverage. He was an editor at DMN and they had been talking for a while. I believe he left between the time it was announced that buyouts were coming down and when they actually did.

This is partially incorrect. Noel Nash is now Senior Director of Content for ESPN's Data Group. In other words, a bigger and better job than 90 percent of us (myself included) can dream of.

rb

 

[Angola!]

The one and only.

Since I wasn't around for the discussion on this, I googled it and discovered the SE from a small paper's name was Leon Carter. Is this the same Leon Carter that is the SE at the New York Daily News?

 

[Basil Exposition]

Blackistone and Dwayne Bray definitely out.

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/060901_prince/

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

My sources tell me Blackistone and Fraley took the buyout.

 

[Moderator1]

I haven't seen Kevin in a long time. He and I used to cross paths often. Very good guy, I always enjoyed chatting with him. I'm sure he'll find something else very soon.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I have a question. Those of you in the Dallas area, what is the local reaction to this news? The dominant media operation in town is gutting itself in the name of profit. The News sold itself on the principle that Dallas was a world class city that deserved and needed a world class newspaper. Now, by God, fellow Belo property the Providence Journal might be better staffed. Are Dallas residents hurt, scornful, do they give a ****? What?

 

[standman]

Well, when you're a one-paper town and the only info you produce about the buyout is one story six inches long, I think it's fair to say most people don't notice. Yet. If the paper allows its top people to write goodbye columns (at this point it might as well be a special section), people may start to notice.

I know people in the business care because the DMN set such a high standard, but the average person couldn't care less about the grunts in the media and only care when there is big news about the superstars. The only folks really writing much about the gutting of the editorial staff are the local (media) blogs.

Dallas mayor Laura Miller recently started bragging about how the city is dedicating itself to the arts. Too bad the paper is losing all of its main critics and is in the process of gutting its arts and entertainment section.

 

[fw]

I heard Bray was going to head up espn.com's nfl coverage, but I guess not:

... Bray said he will join ESPN at its Bristol, Conn., headquarters as news editor on its remote production crew. ...

 

[Football_Bat]

I have a question. Those of you in the Dallas area, what is the local reaction to this news? The dominant media operation in town is gutting itself in the name of profit. The News sold itself on the principle that Dallas was a world class city that deserved and needed a world class newspaper. Now, by God, fellow Belo property the Providence Journal might be better staffed. Are Dallas residents hurt, scornful, do they give a ****? What?

The fine folks of Collin County will have a surprise this morning when they open up their paper on this first Saturday morning of prep pigskin, and see that their extra deluxe 6-page zone wrap which they had last year has disappeared.

 

[MGoBlue]

Joe and Martha,

Good luck! Come to Florida! :)

MGB

 

[zman82]

unless times have changed, plano will always get some DMN love because its ... well, plano. money talks around there.

 

[Kritter47]

I don't think the abverage sports fans in Dallas will be too upset with the loss of Blackistone. He's been criticized as a one-trick pony who troes to inject race into almost every column, and a lot of people have just stopped reading him.

Fraley will be mourned by baseball fans, but he'd been phased out over the past year or so since he took his hiatus to California.

What has driven fans in Dallas to the FWST more and more in recent years is the depth of the local coverage of the big four teams. College, preps and national stories are all secondary to the Cowboys third receiver rolling his ankle. The DMN has steadily lost ground on that front, and with these moves, I wouldn't be surprised if the FWST becomes the first choice for local sports-minded readers.