December 09, 2009 10:46 PM UTC

Mainstream Media Continues Capitol Cutbacks

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• by: donscottknox

The news continues to be gloomy in the news biz as the Colorado Springs Gazette discloses that it won’t staff the Capitol next session.

A question for Pols readers: What takes the place of the MSM? Pols? Something/someone else?

This from State Bill Colorado

The Colorado Springs Gazette next month will join the list of Colorado newspapers that won’t have a full-time reporter working at Colorado’s Capitol.

The Gazette’s political reporter, Dean Toda, recently departed the newspaper as part of a round of layoffs that cost the jobs of 10 percent of newsroom staffers, Managing Editor Larry Ryckman said. Tom Roeder, who covers the military beat for the newspaper, will take over political reporting duties, but he will do so largely from Colorado Springs, Ryckman said.

And this:

The Gazette will supplement its political coverage with reports from The Denver Post, with which the Colorado Springs newspaper has a content-sharing agreement, and from the Associated Press, which employs full-time Capitol reporter, Steven K. Paulson.

Full story here: http://www.statebillnews.com/2…