April 26, 2018 12:17 PM UTC

"Daily Camera" Editor Fired for Speaking Out

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• by: Colorado Pols

Michael Roberts of Westword has more on a story that has been picked up nationally via the Associated Press:

Dave Krieger, a former staffer with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and KOA radio, has been fired from his latest position as editorial-page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, the so-called vulture hedge fund that also owns the Post, when his own paper wouldn’t publish it…

…Alden Global Capital has been the focus of local ire since the Post‘s March announcement that thirty newsroom employees would be laid off; the total corresponds to around one-third of the staff. Afterward, Chuck Plunkett, the Post‘s editorial-page editor, put together a package blasting Alden that actually saw print and caused a journalistic stir nationwide.

Note that the Post doesn’t have a publisher right now, following the resignation of Mac Tully earlier this year. Speculation is that Tully stepped down rather than participate in such a draconian round of layoffs — and there have also been reports that Alden executives initially wanted Plunkett’s scalp but backed down to avoid a bad-publicity bloodbath.

Here’s how Krieger announced the news via Twitter on Wednesday night:

I’ll have more to say about it, I’m sure, but right now I’m going to have a cocktail. 2/2

— Dave Krieger (@DaveKrieger) April 26, 2018

We wrote earlier this month about a Denver Post editorial taking on the newspaper’s owners. Digital First Media really sucks.