Another destabilizing action to the very inconstant paper, but yet much needed alternative to the Tennessean monolith. Clint was a very respectable and moderate voice reporting on the ins and outs of the politcos in Metro and the State.
I hope this is not another sign of a directional drift of the City Paper’s content to be more like the irreverent hipster Nashville Scene.
Clint Brewer ousted as City Paper Editor
February 16, 2009 by Truman Bean
Filed under General News
Clint Brewer Out as City Paper Editor
By Jeff Woods
Friday, Feb. 13 2009 @ 3:44PMClint Brewer has been fired as the City Paper’s editor, sources say. The announcement was made at a newsroom staff meeting this afternoon. “It was said that he was let go,” one source tells Pith. We just talked to Brewer, who said he couldn’t discuss the matter. “I’m an employee of SouthComm right now and we have a company policy where I’m not to speak to the media,” he said. We placed several calls with SouthComm, which owns the City Paper and the Nashville Post and a bunch of other stuff, and nobody’s calling us back. Our sources say it’s not clear why Brewer was dismissed. Two editors from other SouthComm publications are taking over Brewer’s duties at the City Paper.Update: SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell just phoned to say indeed Brewer has been fired. He cited (a) economic reasons and (b) his desire to give “separate and distinct voices” to the Monday and Thursday editions of the City Paper. “It was largely just a reorganization of our edit department,” he said.
SouthComm reorganizes editorial roles
02-13-2009 5:54 PM —
SouthComm Inc., the parent of NashvillePost.com and other regional niche publications, announced today that NashvillePost.com Editor Geert De Lombaerde and Business Tennessee Editor Drew Ruble have been named respectively the editors of the Monday and Thursday editions of The City Paper.
The two veteran journalists will continue in their current roles while succeeding Clint Brewer, who had been with the paper since March 2006.“Clint has done a tremendous job raising the standards of news journalism in Nashville. I regret that our new model did not have a place for his talents long term,” said SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell. “In the present economic environment, we continue to look at making our cost structure as efficient as possible while refining our model of delivering compelling business, political, legal and arts content. Moving Geert and Drew into these new roles will help our two weekly papers develop unique voices that will better serve our readers.”De Lombaerde has been editor of NashvillePost.com since January 2008 after a stint in health care public affairs at Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock. Prior to that, he spent almost a decade with American City Business Journals, first as an award-winning finance reporter for the Business Courier in Cincinnati, then as managing editor and editor of the Nashville Business Journal. He is a native of Belgium and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Ruble has been editor of Business Tennessee, a controlled-circulation magazine distributed to nearly 30,000 senior-level business, political and civic leaders across the state, since 2005.
Prior to being named editor, Ruble produced dozens of the magazine’s cover stories, in the process earning a silver award from the Alliance of Area Business Publications for his body of work. He is a graduate of Ohio University and has a master’s of fine arts degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
