A while back George Gombossy’s photo was displayed on Hartford Courant billboards along highways, but even that boatload of exposure didn’t match this: an article about his firing/layoff in the New York Times.
“The disagreement addresses a delicate area in journalism. As ad revenue drops, publishing executives are willing to go far to keep advertisers happy, running front-page ads and ads that look like news articles. Mr. Gombossy is claiming that Courant executives, under pressure from advertisers, did not want him to write critical reports about them, and fired him when he would not change his stance.
“But Courant executives say that their reporters are welcome to write about advertisers, and that the separation between advertising and editorial content still stands. Mr. Gombossy’s complaints are just those of a ‘disgruntled employee,’ Richard Graziano, the paper’s publisher, said on a voicemail message.”
Re: Richard Graziano’s statement. Crap!
I think I was the only happy employee at The Courant who didn’t have an uptodate resume. george