Eureka Reporter publisher Judi Pollace confirmed this afternoon that Managing Editor Glenn Franco Simmons resigned from the paper today. Pollace said that the resignation was for personal reasons, and declined to elaborate.
“We wish him all the luck in the world,” Pollace said.
Pollace said that she was in the process of writing an ad to seek a replacement for Simmons when the Journal called.
Simmons had helmed the paper, owned by Eureka businessman Rob Arkley, since it was founded as an Internet-only publication in the summer of 2003.
This article appears in Roger Rodoni.
Rabbit: hey, Gordo! What’s that you’re doin’ Got bugs or somethin?
Gordo: it’s a Releasing Irksome Dudes dance. A really good one.
Turtle: heh! a good RID dance!
Gordo: yep, gotta stay in practice. Looks like we may need to do a bunch of these soon…
No idea in the world what that last post means. To the issue. WE wish Glenn the very best.
As do I.
I’m sorry to hear this news. I also wish Glenn the very best. He is a very nice guy. It musta been quite a ride, going from the online experiment to the daily.
Any idea what’s up Hank?
Glenn is a class guy who stands up for his principles. Just got a little too tightly wrapped in them sometimes.
I wish him well.
You going to take the job?
Glenn, please remember, when a door closes, another one opens. Best to you and your family.
Careful what you wish for, GG.
Dog: If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve. Unless they offer a truly obscene amount of money.
Well it did seem a little editor-heavy over there. I wondered how long Glenn would hang on after Hannaford was hired.
No doubt that GFS will be replaced with a Hannaford caliber Editor, conservative speaking.
Watch out Humboldt-
Cheez – you guys are acting like it’s a bad thing GFS is leaving the Repeater. Look: he doesn’t have to work there anymore, so he’s happy, and we don’t have to read his editing anymore, so we’re happy. It’s a win-win all around. And maybe Regnery will even pick up an “editor,” or whatever they call the people who write their stuff.
Hank: just for starters: CH. GO’B. FB. JB. GWB. DC. If wishing to wish them good rid-dance is wrong, I wish not to be right.
The Repeater? Thats a pretty stupid attack on The Reporter GG.
The Reporter, like all the newspapers in Humboldt, has its moments of stupidity but be thankful it’s there, because that’s another newspaper providing people in Humboldt local news that might not be covered in the other publications.
As for GFS, good luck to him. With all the new blood joining the ER, this may be an opportunity for the newspaper to continue in a positive direction.
Glenn, I wish you the best — you and I worked together at the T-S in the Rux era and then at the Reporter and had agreements and differences both, but speaking freely, I think it’s time to put the Reporter behind you and do much better for yourself. You’re free to be, man.
The Repeater? Thats a pretty stupid attack
Golly. So solly to offend. (You should hear what we call the Sub-Standard chez Gordo.)
But the basic fact of life of Arkley’s paper is that it was set up to be a local voice for his far-right views. GFS did a good job of reflecting that.
Really, Gordo? I find it has a distinctly liberal bent, especially on local matters – if you’re talking about the columnists, it’s nice to have some different choices. Really, a conservative paper is an unfilled niche. (Even a conservative LEANING paper would be an unfilled niche.)
But the paper is made up more of community stuff – local sports, weddings and all that, that’s what builds readership and community loyalty, and makes for a ‘hometown’ paper.
Starting out as an online online news source was a crazy move that made it. Give Glenn credit.
The Times (cut & paste) Standard.
Gulo: Take PL. You probably didn’t care for JC. But when he left, you got RM. ¿Progress?
Just further down the road to hell. Manne got to swoop in to be the axe man, cutting hundreds of jobs, and Campbell got to save face and be mayor.
Perhaps Hannaford is the ER’s Robert Manne. Maybe not in terms of job loss but in other ways just as special.
“But the basic fact of life of Arkley’s paper is that it was set up to be a local voice for his far-right views. GFS did a good job of reflecting that.”
If that is the direction editorials lean, fine. Every newspaper has a right, and should, take whatever political stance on issues the editor finds appropriate. That doesn’t reflect the content produced by journalists, however, only the editorials.
The T-S leans to the left in their editorials, yet I rarely see criticism of their view, probably because the people complaining about the E-R’s political stance are liberals.
To each their own.
“The T-S leans to the left in their editorials…”
How does one draw such a conclusion?
By reading the T-S’s editorial page.
hes back on the bottle. if you know him personally, reach out and shake some sense into him.
Gordo,you seem rather rude. Could it be your liberal loving self respect for all showing? Naaa! didn’t think so.
Whoa, I’m liking these anonyribbons. Here’s a write-up of the technology.
Doesn’t work quite as advertised, though. Stephen Glass is not Heather Muller is not Anonn, even though they all have the same ribbon.
What it does is hash the e-mail address associated with a comment and ribbonify that. So if you want a unique ribbon, put an e-mail address into the comment field. If you’re one of the tinfoil helmet types, you can enter a fake one — just make sure it’s the same fake one every time.
But then why wouldn’t you just use a fake name, I guess.
dont play with technology hank it bites.
Oh dear. I seem to have given someone the vapors. My word.
Rose wrote, re the Repeater: I find it has a distinctly liberal bent, especially on local matters – if you’re talking about the columnists, it’s nice to have some different choices.
Yah, sure. We’re talking about Glenn Franco Simmons here, the guy who gave Stephen Lewis a regular column. Different indeed. LMAO.
Peace be with you
Just a thought ’bout new editors. It has been shown when the left moves to the left, then the right also moves to the left. It is the distance between right and left that is talked about, not how far left right really is. I see what social engineers call a paradigm shift coming.
love eternal
tad
“Yah, sure. We’re talking about Glenn Franco Simmons here, the guy who gave Stephen Lewis a regular column. Different indeed. LMAO.”
Kinda on a par with giving David Cobb a regular column in the TS.
OH SNAP
He may very well be a nice guy (never met him–have no opinion either way); however, he cannot write a very good editorial.
what other paper runs Amy Goodman… come on.
Glenn saved me from publishing a really stupid letter to the editor ER. Don’t get me wrong, he said he’d publish it if I insisted, but it was stupid. That prompted me to re-read it and sure enough, it was. Stupid, I mean. I asked him not to publish it and he complied.
I didn’t think much of his editorials either, but he seemed like a decent guy.
This is only another symptom of the ER’s slow crumble. They’d be dead already if it wasn’t for the unbelievable incompetence of Rich Somerville. All the T-S has to do at this point is get someone in the editor slot who actually knows what the hell he’s doing and the ER is sunk.
Of course if they want to lose, then Somerville is the perfect choice.
It doesn’t matter who they replace Glen with, the Managing Editor at the ER has no actual power and isn’t allowed to make important decisions regarding news coverage. The Publisher, Design Director, and Assistant Managing Editor carry all the power. They have a Managing Editor only because a newspaper is sort of expected to have one these days…
10:39…Glenn? Is that you?
I’m glad Glenn got out of that hell-hole of an office at The ER. He is much better off somewhere else. Without being able to fulfill his duties as a managing editor, what was the point in staying? Just to be a whipping boy? 10:39 is right. The publisher, her yes-person AKA assistant managing editor and the jerk in charge of design are the people running the show there and it’s unfortunate because The ER has the potential to be a good paper should they let a managing editor, say, do his/her job.
Good luck, Glenn!
I’m sorry Glenn is out. He takes journalism very seriously. His stance on some issues like the Confederate Flag defied simple political categorization.
He suffered an unecessary amount of blogabuse for some of his stances. But at least he stands for something.
Good luck, Glenn
Glenn was/is too good a guy to go through what he’s gone through the past couple of years.
The higher-ups at the Eureka Reporter are mere underlings in comparison to what Glenn is to not only his chosen profession but also those he chose to join him at the paper.
Someone mentioned to me once that he always smelled something was wrong there — and not just the publisher’s cologne.
Glenn deserved better and he has it.
Free at last, free at last …
See you soon, Glenn.
Glenn was fair and balanced…not to be confused with the un-balanced depicted in the comments thus far…oh, not you, Hank.
Come on!!!
Glenn earned my respect. At the beginning, I didn’t think that would be possible. If we are lucky, he’ll find a new job in local journalism.
Glenn was a class act. The best to him and whatever endeavor the future holds.
Thank you for all of your comments, both critical and praiseworthy.
We all have our strengths and weaknesses, our successes and failures, and I am no different.
I would like to clear up an outright fabrication by Eureka Reporter Publisher Judi Pollace when she told Hank I resigned for “personal reasons.”
I resigned for professional reasons that can be confirmed by Security National, which conducted my exit interview. The publisher was not present.
However, my professional reasons will remain private. You won’t find my expose in local newspapers.
And to Blogger 35 responding to Blogger 34, please don’t insult my intelligence. When I blog, I have the courage of my convictions to use my real name. That you are a coward and did not use your real name speaks volumes about you.
Also to Blogger 35, I left The Eureka Reporter with the strongest editorial staff it has had since I founded the newspaper with Rob Arkley, with the exception of one writer whom I have criticized on my own blog.
Very professional of you Glenn to leave the ER and then take shots at Nathan.