Stop the Presses, RS Dumps More People

Citing an economic downturn and overall declines in the newspaper industry, the Redding Record Searchlight on Thursday laid off 12 employees — about 8 percent of its 145-person work force.

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This is how someone close to the situation…

Why spotlight the Record Searchlight?

I’ve moved on to a better place since I was fired from the Record Searchlight in October. I have a great, rapidly growing website. (Oh, oh, stay tuned for a Food for Thought surprise announcement Aug. 1. You’ll love it.)

Where…

Wanted: Outsourced newspaper writers

You’d think if the Record Searchlight wanted to cast a worldwide net for newsroom writers, it would start with an ad in its own paper.

After all, the RS has ads in its classifieds for an RS forklift operator, RS ap/accounting clerk, RS contract home-delivery paper carriers, RS…

Newspaper enters uncharted waters

Sinking ship.

That term wins the prize. It’s been used the most in the last year to describe the Record Searchlight’s continuous decline.

I trace the beginning of the paper’s end to nearly one year ago after Silas Lyons replaced Kelly Brewer, a career journalist.

What an amazing feat Lyons performed…

Wowza! Christy Lochrie writes again
… but not for the RS

Credit today’s Food for Thought forums for bringing us this Chico News & Review story about Area 51  by Christy Lochrie. Dig a little deeper and you’ll notice she also wrote another piece for the same Chico paper about the protesters at Joshua Munns’…

Readers’ silence sends loud message to newspaper

Seven days since the local newspaper’s editor’s apology blog of the week.

This time he replied to one reader’s e-mail that asked why last week’s entire Record Searchlight Sunday op/ed section was void of “citizen opinions.” 

The editor offered possible excuses for the saggy letters to…

What now, my love, now that it’s over?

Free speech was alive and well in front of the Record Searchlight yesterday. More than 100 people (some estimates guessed as many as 140) gathered to protest what many believe is the paper’s mismanagement and rapid downward spiral.

Some protested my…

About that march . . .

No, I won’t be marching, but many of my friends and loved ones will.

Yes, Celeste is correct when she says I implore everyone to not paint the whole Record Searchlight with one rough, critical brush.

I have scores of good friends…