The fight is on at Colorado Public Radio, where one high-powered boardmember has resigned, and at the Denver Post, where the bloodletting has begun in earnest.
"And here's another mistake you guys made..."Back in 2007, the Denver Post's Jim Spencer was downsized right out of his plum metro-columnist's gig -- and months after landing a job as the communication director for the University of Colorado Denver's School of Medicine, he was still publicly lamenting the way he was jettisoned from his beloved career. So imagine his satisfaction when he was able to force the Post to publish a correction about a Wednesday graphic identifying UCD's med scho
Jim Spencer -- gone.Turns out the correction Jim Spencer demanded and got last week from the Denver Post, the very newspaper that handed him his head in a cost-cutting move, was among his last official duties as communications director for the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. Spencer hasn't returned a series of calls, but UCD spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery confirms that he's taken a position at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. (It's an editor-type gig, not a columnist positio
Dan Meyers.Last week, former Denver Post columnist Jim Spencer left his position as communications director for the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in favor of a return to journalism at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; while a CU spokeswoman said she thought he'd taken an editor-type gig, he's actually been placed on the paper's Sunday/enterprise team. But there are more Post alums, and one of them -- Dan Meyers, who served as national/foreign editor at the broadsheet, among