Paul Douglas

WI progressive daily stops printing: Madison, Wisconsin’s 90-year-old afternoon newspaper is no more — at least not in print. The Capital Times published its last print edition on Saturday; it will continue to report online news as well as put out two free tabloids, which will be inserted into the morning paper, the Wisconsin State [...]

After a technical glitch kept City Pages’ “Best of” edition offline awhile, one of its winners, the blog Mediation, offered a quick tweet: “I think it takes guts to not have your biggest issue of the year online on time and then go after vita.mn instead. Well done, CP.” Now that it’s up — and [...]

Bellwetherman? In an email Thursday about its campaign opposing the governor’s bonding bill vetoes, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota used a bizarre example as proof of an ailing economy’s effect on working Minnesotans: the firing of weatherman Paul Douglas (whose salary is estimated variously at between $250k and $500k). “Many families across Minnesota have [...]

Oops. Strib gossip columnist C.J. finally wrote up part of my email exchange with her over the not-very-consequential — dare I say “minor” — issue of who broke the news that fired meteorologist Paul Douglas’ bio had been deleted from WCCO.com. But there’s a boner in her “Bona fide scoop.”

She wrote, “At 1:22 p.m., my [...]

In retrospect, maybe I should’ve left this alone, but when I saw that the Star Tribune’s gossip columnist C.J. was claiming a scoop on the news that WCCO meteorologist Paul Douglas’ bio was gone from the station’s website, I dropped her what I intended as a polite, collegial email, inquiring about it. A relative latecomer [...]

WCCO chief meteorologist Paul Douglas, just let go from the CBS TV station, apparently with little warning, sent this email to friends and coworkers:
I wanted to drop you a quick note, before you read about it or hear about it elsewhere. This week I was terminated from WCCO-TV, after 14 wonderful years at CBS. Times [...]

Popular meteorologist Paul Douglas is no longer with WCCO as its parent network CBS is downsizing at stations nationwide, according to Minnesota Public Radio’s Bob Collins. Early this week, WCCO weekend anchor John Reger was let go along with “a handful of other staff members,” according to a report by WCCO’s Jason DeRusha on Wednesday. [...]