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Denver Post Editor Who Criticized Paper's Ownership Resigns

Healy, Jack
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/business/media/denver-post-editor-resigns.html

Publisher:  The New York Times
Date Written:  03/05/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Chuck Plunkett said he knew that he was risking his job as the editorial page editor of The Denver Post when he wrote an impassioned editorial last month blasting the newspaper's hedge-fund owners as "vulture capitalists" who had hobbled Colorado's largest newspaper with deep layoffs and cost-cutting. On Thursday, Mr. Plunkett resigned after he said an executive who oversees the newspaper refused to run another sharp-edged editorial Mr. Plunkett had written for this Sunday's newspaper.

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Mr. Plunkett, 51, drew national attention last month for putting together a series of articles that criticized the management of the 125-year-old newspaper -- the largest in Colorado -- and called for the newspaper to be saved. "News matters," read the banner headline on the paper's Sunday opinion section.

"If Alden isn't willing to do good journalism here," the editorial said, "it should sell The Post to owners who will."

The Post has a weekday circulation of an estimated 170,000 and 8.6 million unique monthly visitors to its website. The paper, which has been owned by Alden since 2010, was ordered in March to cut 30 jobs from a newsroom with a head count that was already below 100. That process is expected to be completed by July.

Mr. Plunkett's resignation reverberated through the newsroom and beyond on Thursday.

Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who represents Colorado, tweeted that Mr. Plunkett "told hard truths and stood up for local press. His departure is a loss for Colorado."
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