Friday, October 9, 2009
Barry / Media Tennessean Snatches Rau from City Paper
Posted by Bruce Barry on Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Certainly it's hard for a young journalist to resist such a move (even with Gannett involved), but we have noticed in recent years that talented reporters have been more likely to depart 1100 Broadway than arrive. So we asked Rau if he's bucking a trend. "I talked to people to do my due diligence," Rau replies, "and I found that reporters who are there now like their jobs."
(And yes, we have noticed the media incestuousness of the blog for one paper pointing to a blog for another outlet owned by the same company in a item about a guy leaving a third outlet owned by the same company.)
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"I talked to people to do my due diligence," Rau replies, "and I found that reporters who are there now like their jobs."
I think he meant to say, "I found that reporters who are there now are glad to still have jobs."
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That is the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Talented journalists don't go to work for Gannett, they leave there to find better jobs at companies that value edit.
Are we sure that Gannett stole Rau from the CP and not the Scene?
Word on the street is that Rau became an employee of the Scene after the sale -- possibly for accounting purposes.
Was Nate Rau actually an employee of the CP at the time of his departure or the Scene?
Who really got stolen from here?
Does anyone really think the Tennessean desperately wants the reporting of Nate Fucking Rau?
This was a strategic maneuver designed to strangle the newly Scene-ified SouthComm before it can become competitive.
The Tennessean is fucking with SouthComm just because it can. They'll dump poor Nate off in the next round of layoffs along with the rest of the excess -- but not before degrading the personal brand he built reporting on Metro for the City Paper.
Bad move by Rau here.
Hopefully this will help the Tennessean's abysmal coverage of state government. It always seems like they have to borrow from another paper for all their big scoops.
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So this may be a dumb question but is the dead tree version of the City Paper kaput? Couldn't find one anywhere last week.
It is to The Tennessean's credit that they found someone with experience covering local politics rather than bringing in an outsider, as the paper has typically done. It was a good move for them (and for him, I'm sure, in terms of compensation and exposure.) The more interesting question is whether the CP will hire someone to cover Metro or try to use current staffers. My guess is the latter but I'd like to be wrong.
