I’m a bit late coming to this, but you’ll forgive me because we’re old friends. (Right?) An alert FrontBurnervian points us to this story about a dust-up in Denver. Until recently, Miles Moffeit was a stud reporter at the Denver Post, but he quit to come work for the investigative team at the Morning News. The dust-up centered on some comments Moffeit made to the Westword about why he was jumping ship for the News. He said one of the reasons he wanted to come to Dallas was because the paper here was in good shape financially — and the one he was working for wasn’t. Bear in mind that Moffeit had been a business reporter for the Post. After his bosses read what he’d said, they told him to pack up his stuff and leave.
I like the cut of this guy’s jib. Moffeit used to work at the Times Herald and the Star-Telegram, so Dallas will be familiar to him. Welcome back, sir. We look forward to reading your strong words.
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OK, so that’s one hotshot reporter landed by the DMN and how many hotshot reporters excused from further participation?
O fortunate city. Dallas, I hope you appreciate the treasure you have gained. What an incredible loss to Northern Colorado – although not really, because when they switched Miles Moffeit from investigations to the business beat a couple of years ago, that resulted in massive underutilization of a huge talent. You guys will have him doing what he does best.
He might have strong words but they will never see the light of day at the wimpy DMN.
I was expecting this post from Wick. He needs a new DMN muse now that Rod and Dave have departed.
Unless Miles has an actual contract with the DMN, he might want to consider renting rather than buying.
Funny, the buzz is that his reputation is way bigger than his actual talent.
As long as Miles confines himself to writing stories, and doesn’t venture into singing or songwriting or any other creative non-Belo venture, he should be fine at the DMN.