Welcome to the June 17 Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days and hours. This is the “Houston we have a problem” edition … Continue reading
Insider Louisville takes a look at intriguing and important stories as reported by other Louisville media outlets. Media giant Gannett made big news yesterday with the announcement that it acquired one of its rivals, Belo Corporation, for 2.2 billion dollars. … Continue reading
So, now we know what media giant Gannett Co. Inc. was doing with all that money they saved by cutting its national workforce by 30 percent since 2007. They were saving up to buy Dallas-based Belo Corp. and its string … Continue reading
Insider Louisville takes a look at intriguing and important stories as reported by other Louisville media outlets. On May 25, Bardstown Police Officer Jason Ellis was ambushed, shot repeatedly, and killed on his way home. His killer is still at … Continue reading
Well, That Escalated Quickly: So Rutgers has had some difficulty with their athletics department lately. Back in April, Athletic Director Tim Pernetti resigned following the firing of Rutgers basketball head coach, Mike Rice, who had a video surface of him … Continue reading
The backside of a racetrack is the sanctum sanctorum of horse racing, and it was for ages a fraternity through and through – the equine equivalent of The Little Rascals’ infamous fellowship: The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club. The only fillies … Continue reading
It started as a local story with national implications. Public radio station WFPL based a story Thursday on Jacob Conway’s allegations that two Progress Kentucky activists – former Insider Louisville reporter Curtis Morrison and Shawn Reilly – secretly recorded Sen. … Continue reading
WDRB-TV announced Thursday that it has hired John David Dyche to write conservative opinion columns twice a week for the station’s website, and vows to balance the hire with an unnamed liberal voice in the near future. “I want to … Continue reading
The public tends to see journalists as seducers, taking subjects into their confidences and getting them – especially politicians – to reveal indiscretions and follies. In fact, it’s the reverse. Authority figures know journalists are the most vulnerable, easily seduced … Continue reading
Late last week, WHAS conservative talk show host Mandy Connell broke the news conservative columnist and Sen. Mitch McConnell biographer John David Dyche was leaving the Courier-Journal – after we did something we’d never done since our founding in 2010. … Continue reading
