Fuck You, John R. Block.

The end of a newspaper:

A 2003 series in The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, which broke the story of a Vietnam village massacre, prompted several investigations, and won the paper its only Pulitzer Prize, likely would not have happened without the paper's Washington, D.C. bureau, which is slated to close later this month, according to the two writers who penned the series.

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"If it wasn't for the Washington bureau and Mike Woods, there is a good chance these documents would have been buried forever," Weiss said. "I really think if it wasn't for Mike Woods' friendship with Tufts, these records quite possibly would have been sitting there still."

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Sallah and Weiss' comments come just days after executives at Block Communications, which owns The Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, announced plans to close the five-person D.C. bureau, which has operated out of the National Press Building since 1927 and had served both The Blade and Post-Gazette. Bureau chief Ann McFeatters said one reporter would remain, but work primarily out of Capitol Hill. Woods' job would be eliminated as well, but it is unclear If he would be reassigned to another beat outside Washington.


Thanks to the Daily Scaife:

In a cost-cutting move, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this week laid off several non-union workers, including longtime cartoonist Tim Menees and Washington, D.C., bureau chief Michael McGough.


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