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Fiona Morgan ·
5 Jan 2009, 1:37 PM ·
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Neil Offen got a promotion for Christmas, though not one he wanted, it seems.
As of today, Offen is the new metro editor of the Durham Herald-Sun. Offen, who lives in Carrboro, has worked at The Chapel Hill Herald, the Durham daily’s Orange County counterpart, for more than eight years and has been its editor for more than six. Now former H-S metro editor Dan Way has moved into Offen’s old position in Chapel Hill.
Offen lamented the move in an email to Chapel Hill contacts on Dec. 30.
“It’s not a position I necessarily asked for or wanted; it was thrust upon me,” he wrote.
It’s unclear what the move signals for The H-S, which has suffered steep circulation declines in recent years in both Durham and Orange. Sources inside the paper say Way has never been liked by reporters, who have seen their workloads increase as their ranks have decreased, both through layoffs and attrition.
Offen’s love of Chapel Hill and Carrboro was evident in his on-air interviews with local AM news radio station WCHL each weekday during the 5 p.m. hour.
“Neil’s been great to work with,” says WCHL Station Manager Christy Dixon. “He’s been on with us since we brought the station back to Chapel Hill [in 2002], so we wish him the best.”
Way has not been booked in his place. Dixon says the station has a new news director who is considering whether to extend the invitation to competing print media outlet The Carrboro Citizen.
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Fiona Morgan ·
24 Nov 2008, 10:20 AM ·
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Michael Bacon, a Durham blogger at The Bull in Full, saw the banner ad atop The Herald-Sun’s web site inviting him to “Go ahead. Tell us what you really think,” and decided to give it a go.
But it’s unclear whether it worked, and what exactly the concept/idea/point of H-S’s new blog is.
Bacon’s post complaining about “the abundantly useless” columnist John McCann appears here to registered users. But H-S’s blog home page says “no blogs have been posted yet.”
“Maybe they’re still ironing out the kinks,” Bacon said on his own site, “and maybe their lack of web editor means that it’s going to take a while before anything works right. At this point, though, the review that pops into mind is something along the lines of, ‘Newzpapir blogz — ur doing it rong.’”
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Matt Saldaña ·
21 Oct 2008, 12:13 PM ·
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The Herald-Sun, in its front-page analysis (registration required) of the role race has played in the 2008 election, opens with a curiously misleading sentence:
When Barack Obama announced he was running for president nearly two years ago, he pushed race to the forefront of presidential politics in a way never done before.
The statement reflects the opinion of several commenters on the H-S site, who believe Obama has made race an issue in his campaign. In fact, he only fully addressed race after the controversy surrounding his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., had brought a pot of racial anxieties to a full boil. That was seven months ago, not two years ago. And it wasn’t “pushed” by Obama. In that speech, Obama addressed “the kindness and cruelty, the fierce intelligence and shocking ignorance, the struggles and successes, the love and, yes, the bitterness and bias that makes up the black experience in America.” He insisted, however, that his campaign would not heal racial wounds, and he asked voters not to judge him through a “purely racial lens.”
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