We were pleased last fall to note a new addition to the reporting team at the Colorado Springs Gazette: we knew about the work of Eileen Welsome from the 1990s during her time at the Albuquerque Tribune. Welsome won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on government radiation research on human subjects during the Cold War. As a reporter for the Gazette this year, Welsome was already showing great promise doggedly running down the story of Doug Bruce’s covert role in Amendments 60, 61 and Prop. 101–known colloquially as the “Dr. Evil” initiatives.
As most of you know, the Colorado Springs Gazette is party to a legal dispute with this blog, and we have been ordered not to quote any of their stories. But we of course do read the Gazette every day, and value the work of their reporters–as we do at newspapers across the state.
But we were surprised to hear today that Welsome has suddenly resigned from the Gazette. It has been suggested to us that there may be a political reason for her departure; we want to stress that we have no way of confirming that, but it comes from a reliable source. Given the quality of her work in her brief term at the Colorado Springs paper, this would be another big loss for political journalism in the state, at a time when that can least be afforded.
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If this is true, it wasn’t because she was dogging Bruce. I’m trying to learn what I can.
Just the other day, the Deseret News laid off nearly half of its newsroom staff.
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah…
Newspapers are dead, much to the detriment of democracy.
In 10 years we’ll have a new system that is profitable delivering news. But the transition period is going to be rough.
They came over here three years in a row and did some workshops for us lowly bloggers.
I learned a lot.
I hope they come back in a different incarnation.
Or do you have any idea what this alleged profitable news by internet will be?
Inquiring minds want to know, because up till now nobody has a clue.
But I do know the people in this country have always had a significant demand for news. And where there’s a demand there will be a supply. (I do have some ideas of things that could help, but I don’t know how effective they would be.)
Must be a little too early to speculate she was kicked off the paper then.