Banjo Jones posts some Houston Chronicle scuttlebutt over at his blog:
Morale at the Chron, we’re told, is at an all-time low. Editor Jeff Cohen can’t make the paper a world-class product, like he promised he would, because he’s getting his marching orders (in the form of budget constraints) from the Hearst bigwigs in New York. Their new hires, by and large, are young and rather inexperienced, so they’ll work cheap. One of their more veteran reporters recently left to go work for Stars and Stripes. Who in their right mind would want to leave a “major metro daily” to work for Stars and Stripes? Someone who works at The Houston Chronicle.
A little poking around on the Stars and Stripes site suggests that Banjo’s unnamed former Chron reporter is one Andrew Tilghman, who seems to be working for the Stars and Stripes Middle East bureau.
