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RIP, Fred White
Burnt Ends
Comings and goings
- Steve Vockradt left the Kansas City Business Journal to join the Pitch.
- Lindsey Slater was named news director at 6News Lawrence.
- Katie Bean left the Lawrence Journal-World to join the Business Journal as its special sections editor.
- Shawnee Dispatch editor Rob Roberts has left to join the Kansas City Business Journal, covering real estate.
- Lawrence Journal-World managing editor Caroline Trowbridge has left the paper after 30 years with the World Company
- KSHB assistant news director Brett Akagi left the station.
- Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member E. Thomas McClanahan retired.
KC Star sees circulation boost
After seeing a giant drop in circulation in the last September’s Alliance for Audited Media report (formerly Audit Bureau of Circulation), the Kansas City Star saw some small gains in the report issued Monday.
Sunday circulation is up 2 percent from 275,784 to 280,790, a jump of 5,006 from a report issued last September. Continue reading
McClatchy reports more than 22,000 digital subscriptions
McClatchy, the parent company of the Kansas City Star, released its first quarter earnings statement yesterday, and said it’s earned more than $5.8 million so far from its paywall, implemented company-wide in December. The PlusProgram now has more than 22,000 subscribers, the company said. In January, the program had about 8,000 subscribers. Continue reading
Lawrence-based closed-captioning company apologizes to Zooey Deschanel for mixup
Zooey Deschanel was not wanted in connection to the Boston terror plot. Just to be clear on that.
But millions of people have seen a screenshot suggesting otherwise, after a FOX affiliate aired the erroneous text.
Jason Whitlock’s been making a weeks-long vagina joke on Twitter
When Jason Whitlock first tweeted he might be coming back to Kansas City three weeks ago, it seemed unlikely but somewhat plausible. The Star probably wouldn’t take him back; but radio stations fighting for ratings might.
Maybe Jason Whitlock’s just messing with us
On Sunday, April 7, former Star columnist Jason Whitlock tweeted something that made it seem like he might be coming back to Kansas City, after a two-year hiatus.
How area papers played the Boston Marathon terror attack
NY Times’ KC correspondent John Eligon wrote Boston explosion story after running Boston Marathon
John Eligon, who’s been reporting on the Midwest after being named the New York Times’ Kansas City correspondent in the summer, is writing about today’s deadly explosion in Boston.
