Brauer: Strib’s Kersten, Coleman to lose columns
Monday, December 15, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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MinnPost’s David Brauer, who has documented the financial woes at the Star Tribune better than anyone, writes that a memo went out at the paper today revealing that the paper’s conservative and liberal columnists, Katherine Kersten and Nick Coleman, may be losing their columns. Both can keep jobs at the paper as reporters. Brauer writes, “To put it mildly, that would be a stretch for Kersten, who has never held such a journalism job. Expect a gigantic eruption from the right wing.” He says management’s buyout memo says they’re seeking “up to three” metro columnists — gossip columnist CJ? James Lileks? — and “up to one” editorial cartoonist to take buyouts (Steve Sack?).
Here’s more details of the memo.
6 Comments
Comment posted December 15, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Nick is no longer a collumnist?
Gee that means he can now do the hard reporting to pin the bridge collapse on Pawlenty.
The stolen 133 ballots on Norm and the Wacouta Bridge fiasco on the Lt Gov.
Get cracking on you new beat Nickster.
Comment posted December 15, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
Just to be precise, the memo didn’t reveal Coleman and Kersten are out of the columnist chairs; it’s more general than that. (See: http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2008/12/15/5286/buh-bye_columnists_the_buyout_memo)
But my sources do indicate that they will lose their columnar perches.
Comment posted December 15, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
Coleman should do fine. He actually seems to talk to sources, even if being a columnist means he doesn’t need the second source. Kirsten, a reporter? At a minimum she never checks anything, and she can’t seem to figure out assertion isn’t fact.
That was an assertion by the way, not a fact.
Comment posted December 16, 2008 @ 8:15 am
Kersten’s column is in danger?! There IS a Santa Claus.
Comment posted December 16, 2008 @ 8:32 am
Did anyone Kerstin tried to interview ever throw a can of pop at her? No? Well then, I guess she isn’t a reporter.
Comment posted December 16, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
I’m not a liberty to go into specifics, but the cat has been hit up to cover one of those columns.
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