Post by Alger Hiss on Nov 2, 2011 9:58:09 GMT -5
Richard Connor’s Next Move
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:56am.
Maine Media
How can I miss you if you won’t go away: MaineToday Media’s soon-to-be-ex-CEO Richard Connor wrote what appears to be his last column for the Maine Sunday Telegram on Oct. 30. In it, Connor announced that in spite of his unceremonious ouster last week from his newspaper companies in Maine and Pennsylvania, he’s planning to remain involved in journalism for the foreseeable future.
“I’ve been in the media business for 40 years,” he wrote, “and intend to be in it for at least another 20.”
After some self-serving blather about all he’s accomplished at MaineToday, Connor concludes with this: “What comes next for me will be to continue to devote my efforts to journalism, fairness in reporting, and the challenge we all face of building a solid digital business foundation for this industry.”
I’m at a loss as to what Connor thinks he’s done for journalism (other than keeping the Portland Press Herald from folding, at least for now) or fairness in reporting (has he forgotten his outrageous grandstanding for Eliot Cutler’s gubernatorial campaign, allowing his bias to leak from the editorial page to the news section?)
But whatever his accomplishments, it appears they’ll involve what he called “smaller regional newspapers and websites,” both of which he believes have “bright futures.”
Does that mean he’s buying the Portland Daily Sun?
Connor was far more explicit in his comments to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Connor used to be that paper’s publisher and still owns a business publication in that Texas city).
"I’m looking at newspapers almost as we speak," he said. "I’m going to buy something else.”
Connor added that he intended to remain an investor in MaineToday, depending on “how they run the company.”
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:56am.
Maine Media
How can I miss you if you won’t go away: MaineToday Media’s soon-to-be-ex-CEO Richard Connor wrote what appears to be his last column for the Maine Sunday Telegram on Oct. 30. In it, Connor announced that in spite of his unceremonious ouster last week from his newspaper companies in Maine and Pennsylvania, he’s planning to remain involved in journalism for the foreseeable future.
“I’ve been in the media business for 40 years,” he wrote, “and intend to be in it for at least another 20.”
After some self-serving blather about all he’s accomplished at MaineToday, Connor concludes with this: “What comes next for me will be to continue to devote my efforts to journalism, fairness in reporting, and the challenge we all face of building a solid digital business foundation for this industry.”
I’m at a loss as to what Connor thinks he’s done for journalism (other than keeping the Portland Press Herald from folding, at least for now) or fairness in reporting (has he forgotten his outrageous grandstanding for Eliot Cutler’s gubernatorial campaign, allowing his bias to leak from the editorial page to the news section?)
But whatever his accomplishments, it appears they’ll involve what he called “smaller regional newspapers and websites,” both of which he believes have “bright futures.”
Does that mean he’s buying the Portland Daily Sun?
Connor was far more explicit in his comments to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Connor used to be that paper’s publisher and still owns a business publication in that Texas city).
"I’m looking at newspapers almost as we speak," he said. "I’m going to buy something else.”
Connor added that he intended to remain an investor in MaineToday, depending on “how they run the company.”