Nevada Appeal goes through another editor
We've been getting many calls and emails asking about what happened to Nevada Appeal Editor Dennis Noone, whose name has been stripped from the newspaper's masthead.
Two sources inside the newspaper report that Noone, who was hired a little more than a year ago, was let go on or about Aug. 10. As for why this happened, we don't know, as personnel matters like this are private, and the Appeal has not released any information about it.
Perhaps this is coincidence, but this happened one day after noted journalism blogger Jim Romenesko wrote about Appeal columnist Bob Thomas plagiarizing a column about the signers of the Declaration of Independence. A large portion of this column was lifted word for word from an Internet email that started circulating in the 1990s, parts of which have since been debunked.
But while Noone is gone, Thomas' column continue to run. Go figure.
That makes three editors in six years, all of them abruptly removed from the paper. There is a job posting on JournalismJobs.com looking for the next person to fill that seat.