Tuesday, January 22, 2008

WBUR's new hire

WBUR has itself a new managing editor: it's Mark Degon, who'll be leaving his news director post at WRNI to take the job.

Depending on who you believe, Jon Marcus, Degon's predecessor, exited because A) he couldn't make the transition from print to radio or B) he lost an internal turf war. If the brunt of the truth lies with A), Degon should fare better: he's been running the show at WRNI for a decade, and was the senior news producer at WBUR, WRNI's parent station, before that.

1/22/2008 5:39:57 PM by Adam Reilly | Comments [2] |

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:55:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

One should not overlook what this does (or does not) mean for WRNI as much as what it does (or does not) mean for WBUR. Don't forget, technically they are two completely separate companies now. Granted, there is still a lot of overlap in operations, styles, staff and even some budgetary...but they are technically separate and only going to get moreso. The loss of a long-time pro like Mark Degon could have long-term effects on WRNI.

Brad Deltan

Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:24:47 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Turf wars at WBUR - who could have seen that coming?

Aging Cynic

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