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« Today's Reading List | Main | Pole Mart » December 9, 2005NashvillePost.com Returns MondayNashvillePost.com, a good local business news website that went dark back in August while the owning company mulled its future, is coming back better than ever. The website, owned by the publisher of Business Tennessee magazine, has announced it will return live Monday Dec. 12. NashvillePost.com also has hired three new writers for the site. Two of them are very good picks - the third is no doubt qualified but may well be dogged by an unshakable perception of bias. From the NashvillePost.com announcement today: At the urging of a large number of subscribers, The Nashville Post Co. is re-launching its online news service, NashvillePost.com. The company has recruited an all-star team of business and political journalists who will work in partnership with WKRN News 2 to broaden NashvillePost.com's reach across the Midstate.I worked with Lawson several years ato at NBJ. He's an ace. His hiring is a win for NashvillePost.com and a loss for The Tennessean. E. Thomas Wood will cover health care, banking and other business news. A Nashville native, he has reported for The Tennessean, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, HealthLeaders and other media outlets over the past two decades. As president of Eagle Communications in the late 1990s, he led Business Nashville and Nashville Life magazines to a national editorial award and a financial turnaround. Wood has had a parallel career as an independent historian and was co-editor of the multi-author book Nashville: An American Self-Portrait published in 2001.I wrote freelance stories for Business Nashville when Wood was leading the magazine. He's difficult to work for - and a prima donna - but he knows Nashville business as well as any reporter or editor in town, and better than most of them. Which brings us to the looming problem: Ken Whitehouse will cover politics for the new NashvillePost.com. Born and raised in Nashville, Whitehouse has worked in political campaigns of Vice President Al Gore and Gov. Phil Bredesen as well as other campaigns for elected officials in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii and the United Kingdom. He worked for U.S. Sen. Harlan Mathews and Gov. Ned McWherter. He has also been a columnist for Business Tennessee magazine and an account executive with the Nashville public relations firm McNeely, Pigott & Fox.Can Whitehouse cover Tennessee politics fairly and without bias given that one of his former political bosses is currently the governor - and that all of his former political bosses and causes are Democrats and liberal? More importantly, even if his reporting is the poster child of fairness and balance, will readers accept it that way? Aside from that problem, the return of NashvillePost.com is a welcome thing, as is the announcement that it will provide content to WKRN News 2, which is once again showing itself to be more cutting-edge than its rivals. According to the announcement, WKRN will select news stories produced by NashvillePost.com for broadcast to the Nashville market of just under 1 million households, with Lawson making on-air appearances to present NashvillePost.com stories and to provide analysis. I remain hopeful that NashvillePost.com will eventually evolve its publishing platform in a more blog-styled direction, allowing readers to interact with the writers. Posted in Journalism & Media
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I think they are hurting themselves by requiring registration. I don't think that model will succeed. Posted by: brittney at December 9, 2005 1:27 PMPost a comment
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