Morale boosting at Florida Today

[BDC99]

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Bob Stover, longtime executive editor of Florida Today, thought his staff needed their spirits lifted so he arranged what became dubbed “Pie Day” in the newsroom. The plan was to have the Gannett paper’s journalists bake pies and other treats to share on Thursday.

I’m told that Stover was in a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, discussing today’s morale-boosting event, when he was summoned to the publisher’s office. One staffer tells me the newsroom heard raised voices and “the next thing you know he walks out saying he just resigned.”

 

[boundforboston]

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Bob Stover, longtime executive editor of Florida Today, thought his staff needed their spirits lifted so he arranged what became dubbed “Pie Day” in the newsroom. The plan was to have the Gannett paper’s journalists bake pies and other treats to share on Thursday.

I’m told that Stover was in a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, discussing today’s morale-boosting event, when he was summoned to the publisher’s office. One staffer tells me the newsroom heard raised voices and “the next thing you know he walks out saying he just resigned.”

That seems like a half-baked idea.

 

[LongTimeListener]

 

[Doc Holliday]

So the guy is in the middle of a morale-booster meeting, goes to visit with the publisher for a minute, and then quits.

That should do wonders for morale around that place.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

An appropriate morale-booster would be to throw the pies in some Gannett executives' faces.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

An appropriate morale-booster would be to throw the pies in some Gannett executives' faces.

I've got a special recipe for a pie like that -- made with concrete ...

 

[DanOregon]

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Bob Stover, longtime executive editor of Florida Today, thought his staff needed their spirits lifted so he arranged what became dubbed “Pie Day” in the newsroom. The plan was to have the Gannett paper’s journalists bake pies and other treats to share on Thursday.

I’m told that Stover was in a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, discussing today’s morale-boosting event, when he was summoned to the publisher’s office. One staffer tells me the newsroom heard raised voices and “the next thing you know he walks out saying he just resigned.”

Pie Day sounds like something Sparky Lyle would have loved to "celebrate" in his own unique way.

 

[SportsHack1818]

Bob Stover may be the biggest horse's ass in a Gannett stable that's full of them.

Certainly won't be shedding any tears over his departure.

 

[wheels89]

When one of the biggest Gannettoids has an angry exchange with the publisher and resigns, you know the company is in a real world of ****.