Former Kansas City Star Insider Shares Layoff Testimony

For anybody looking . . .

Most of the former Kansas City Star writers are now on Substack because it's slightly less humiliating than Facebook.  

This scribe is one of the better columnists to work for the paper and for those who follow the local news, his take resonates . . . 

"It seems evident, though, that the executives running the show at McClatchy were less concerned about their journalists and the communities they served than in expanding profit margins.

"The news business is a business. I get that. But it’s also a mission. When it stops being a mission and becomes entirely a business, well, there’s not much left."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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