Bottom Line Communications is reporting The Kansas City Star's business editor has jumped ship, taking a job with the Chamber of Commerce.Kansas City Star Business Editor Chris Lester is bailing out of the newspaper after 24 years for a new position as Senior Vice President for Business Growth with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. He will join the Chamber in mid-April.
According to the Star, (link) editor Mike Fannin said the paper will hire a new business editor as soon as possible. Lester's departure adds to some of the biggest losses of journalists in the history of the newspaper that have been under way this week.
Lester, 47, joined The Star in 1985 as a business reporter and has been business editor the past 10 years.
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10 comments:
A smart man. Get out now before the tsunami hits. I saw that Mike Hendricks from the Star on his facebook is talking about trying to find a job (Source KC Confidential.com)
Looks like Bubba's gonna have to man the shrimp boat by himself. Forest and Lt. Dan are making a run for it.
7:02 Difference is, no one is going to hire Mike Hendricks. He just writes absurd crap to make people hate him. Kind of like Jason Whitlock. They think any hit is a good hit without realizing the damage that they're doing with every post.
I would not be surprised if something similar happened in Charlotte as the paper and the Chamber have been symbiotes for years.
Times like these really shine a light on true allegiances. It shouldn't be a surprise though. Most of these people have been taking kickbacks for years while their papers were seeding the news with advertising that brings in vast amounts more cash than the regular stuff.
Taking kickbacks? That's crap.
Happens all the time. Don't try and argue the point. There are just too many documented cases.
-Don't try and argue the point. There are just too many documented cases.-
At this point it would probably be best to produce some of these documented cases.
I disagree with the kickbacks scenario being prevalent but I do think that newspapers don't print things that might affect their advertisers or their chosen political candidates negatively. They are afraid of losing money in the one situation and losing face in the other.
Like 8:35 said, that's crap, 2:47. Document one instance. No, I'll make it easier. Allege one instance. I bet you can't ... at least with any specifics.
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