By Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA
Posted on June 30, 2010 at 12:43pm

Chicago Reader Publisher Alison Draper on the Firing of Editor Alison True

-- Comments posted on the newspaper's blog on June 29, 2010:

"Alison Draper, publisher of the Reader, has talked a little with me about the decision she and Creative Loafing CEO Marty Petty came to to fire this paper's editor, Alison True. "It was made with tremendous thought, and regardless of my personal feelings for Alison True and her years of amazing service, I stand by my decision," Draper said. "It is nothing short of a leadership issue." True "was highly successful leading the paper through years and years of amazing coverage and she carried the paper through difficult times," but in Draper's view she wasn't the person best equipped to lead the Reader into an uncertain future.

"The best and most seasoned editors are finding it most difficult to function in the new environment," said Draper. "This is a very complex job. You've got to be able to step out of the traditional silos and look at the business through different windows.""

The full story:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/06/29/alison-on-alison-draper-on-true

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