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Giovanna Fabiano, who did such an awful job covering Englewood, Englewood Cliffs and Leonia for The Record, is the latest staffer to jump ship for the online local-news site called Patch.
Fabiano follows in the footsteps of former reporter Tom Davis and the gorilla steps of former Night Editor Tom Troncone in joining the AOL-financed effort.
Troncone was dubbed the night editor for the numerous times he would say, "Good night."
You have to wonder why they would leave the Woodland Park daily for this ify news operation -- unless they just got sick and tired of working for, with or under Editors Francis Scandale and Deirdre Sykes, and their clueless sub-editors.
Now, they've got their hands out looking for tips. I found this on the Ridgewood Patch site:
"Send us a news tip
Patch editors work from home. Can't you just see Troncone getting fat on beer and preservative-laden bratwurst?
"Enter your tip here and it will be sent straight to James Kleimann, Tom Troncone, Giovanna Fabiano, and Laura Bertocci, Ridgewood Patch's (incredibly grateful) editors."
Judging from how many stories she ignored or missed in Englewood, Fabiano must have spent the last few years working from home while on The Record's payroll.
Actually, the Woodland Park daily is good training for Patch aspirants. The assignment editors under Sykes honed the art of sitting back and waiting for the news to come to them.
Is this it? I thought the post would have news on it. Not just a chance to call somebody names.
ReplyDeleteI didn't call anybody names, moron.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me visit here. I was tracking down service supervisors at Ridgewood Patch Website. For lack of service for this long time Ridgewood resident where my name and photo is published there whenever I post a comment. Unfortunely,I haven't been able to login to any site. I am a retired Court administrator and would be careful in my comments and postings and the Ridgewood Editor and not been able to restore my ability. The site is supervised by the three parties mentioned here.
ReplyDeleteI do publish a simple Newsletter on topics of general interest and have my own protected mailing list and my readers have my email address. Thanks for listening.