The Sun-Sentinel’s staff reorganization involved more than the announced departure of Deputy Managing Editor Pat Thompson. Also lost in the reshuffling was Design Director Paul Wallen, who helped oversee the much ballyooed redesign of the newspaper and was also involved in the reorganization process until it cost him his job. The 40-year-old Wallen, widely…

Palm Beach Post reporter Stacey Singer has an idea to help the growing number of laid-off South Florida journalists:”With our profession disintegrating, I believe we need to band together in a constructive way, and create a non-profit organization whose mission is to help journalists transcend this transition into the unknown.”But…

Sun-Sentinel Deputy Managing Editor Pat Thompson, who oversaw the features department, has left the newspaper. Earl Maucker announced Thompson’s departure in a staff-wide email today that also included news of a “restructuring” of the newsroom to create a “quicker and deeper alignment of print and digital journalism.” It just looks like is a…

Here’s a story about some ghosts from the past coming back to haunt Hollywood plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison. A Massachusetts man named Tim Clark has sued the doctor claiming that he sexually assaulted him over a period of two years in the 1970s — when Edison was in medical school and the plaintiff…

Plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison is a dubious doctor who has been hit with a lot of life-altering allegations over the years. Five patients at the medical facility he directs in Hollywood have died after routine cosmetic surgeries during the past 11 years, three of them under Edison’s own knife…

Shortly after Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg announced the move of Manny Garcia to El Nuevo Herald, Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal announced that current Features Editor Mindy Marques will replace Garcia as the newspaper’s new Senior Editor. Actually Marques, a former Miami Bureau Chief for People Magazine, isn’t replacing Garcia. Gyllenhaal wrote that she will instead “cover”…

Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg sent out a memo this evening announcing that Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald editor Humberto Castelló is resigning after seven years at the helm. Even bigger news is Castelló’s replacement. Taking the reins as executive editor at the El Nuevo Herald will be current Miami Herald Metro…

This just in: The Sun-Sentinel has been overtaken by forces of evil intent on making society more callous and stupid. This morning our local newspaper led with the terrible story of Natasha Richardson with the headline: “Is she brain dead?” That’s just heinous. Provide coverage, sure, but don’t lead with it. And…

Compare and contrast this story, which was published two weeks ago, with this one, published today. I’m not complaining — imitation is the sincerist form of flattery after all — but should there have been a citation? Or have all the rules of etiquette and journalistic decency gone out the…

Of the 16 Broward Sheriff’s Office employees who were tested for steroids three weeks ago, nine came back with clean results and will be returning to work, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal told the Pulp today. The obvious inference is that the other seven deputies tested positive, but Leljedal would only confirm that…

It’s all the rage these days: Newspapers just need to charge people for their online content — that would solve our problems! Everybody loves talking that smack, the latest being the Miami Herald’s James Burnett. But it’s all quite silly. In fact the opposite is true — newspapers have to give more…

So I’ve been following this Mutual Benefits scam pretty closely, especially the actions of mastermind Joel Steinger. Following Steinger’s divorce, I learned that there was a hearing this morning regarding alleged contempt by his ex-wife, Diana Steinger. I showed up at the hearing this morning in Judge Susan Greenhawt’s chambers with hopes of catching up Joel Steinger himself…

In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes the transformation of the company’s national cable channel, WGN, into “WGN-America.” “WHY ‘AMERICA’? Because there’s more to life than Hollywood and Manhattan,” Abrams writes. “The channel will speak to Middle America. TV for the average person living in…

All right, for the first time since I was about six, I’m going to stay away from the NCAA tournament this year. This is a whole new version of March Madness for me. Because I’m mad. And I’m boycotting the tournament — and urge all you Gator fans to do the…

Okay, I say a couple nice things about departed Sun-Sentinel reporter John Holland and the knives start flying. The Holland haters bring up an eight-year-old correction which one commenter calls “the longest and most embarrassing front-page retraction in the Sun-Sentinel’s history.” I remember that correction and I remember all the…

All right I’ve been gone from here for a little while doing my day job (journalism) and I’m none too pleased. I had the damn Shak Dhanji fugitive scoop two days ago and got so caught up in another story I was working on and the Miami Herald layoffs that…

How much does freedom of speech cost when applied to the now-infamous Liberty City terror trial? For one private investigator who worked long and hard on the case, Rory McMahon, the bill came to $9,000. For making the mistake of speaking his mind, the veteran P.I. was also banned from…

When I wrote about the plight of the newspapers in South Florida back in December, I asked Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal if there would be more layoffs. “I just don’t see that happening,” he told me. Well, he’s seeing it happen today. The Miami Herald is reporting the much-anticipated job…

Ivonne Rodriguez, of Miami, has a very disturbing story that indicates an unforeseen consequence of this deep recession: She says her beloved horse, Geronimo, was stolen and slaughtered in a field for its meat. The Wanch Waggler blog in Southwest Ranches picked up Ivonne’s story and reported that such incidents, at least…

— John Holland this morning gives us a fairly in-depth look at Mutual Benefits’ Colombian drug cartel connections. My favorite line: “The court records don’t make clear whether Mutual Benefits was an active participant in the money laundering or a pawn.”  Joel Steinger is nobody’s pawn. He’s a pawnmaker. He’s a lifetime…

Hey, no pending felons were elected by the voters. In South Florida, that’s called progress. Let’s run this mf-er down: Davie: Tom Truex lost because Davie voters don’t want developers to mess up the nature of the town with The Commons. I called Judy Paul as the winner two weeks ago based on a Truex…

In his latest think piece, Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams describes his idea for a TV news crime show: During the newscast you “switch” to the WXXX Crime Bureau. There you have an ex- cop type whose “seen it all”—rough at the edges. Gravy stains on his shirt. It’s…