Fairly unbalanced?
A newsroom memo informed Journal Sentinel staff Monday that David Paulsen will be joining the paper in a week to become breaking news editor. The memo added:
For the last five years David has run the evening and overnight operation at FoxNews.com in New York. At Fox he was in charge of a team very much like our Newshub, shaping its urgent response to national and international breaking news. He had responsibilities over story assigning and editing as well as production and news placement on the site.
Women journalists at the paper are not amused, especially since the paper continues its recent tradition of placing men in all the important editor jobs. The memo was leaked to blogging national media watchdog Jim Romenesko, a former Milwaukee Journal reporter now based in Evanston, Illinois. See link below for the full skinny.
You know, just because someone worked at Fox News doesn't mean that person is necessarily a right-wing ideologue, but it possibly does mean that they were comfortable taking orders from right-wing ideologues. Jury is out, but this may prove yet another reason for discriminating news consumers to consider getting their Wisconsin local, state and regional news from someplace other than Milwaukee's daily rag.