10:10 p.m.: THB's Casuscelli takes Mich. job

Nada? Nothing?

Sweet!!!

Anything to do with the court case? hah

Henry Bird, eh? As in "tough old..."?

Wasn't he the guy with the (I think) English accent?  If so, I used to see him at ACC a lot when I worked there.

Scottish. Heh. No other comment.

Yes, he has an English accent.  I am told he's very different from Casuscelli, and not in a particularly friendly way. Of course, that is just someone's subjective opinion. You may know him as a friendly, respectful and engaging kind of man, idk.

He's charming. And I have a lot of respect for him as a businessman. I actually had a buffer (one boss) between him and I when he was at TSP. I wonder if he's just stepping in for a bit until a replacement is found? To 'whip the HB' into shape? It's an interesting development.

Just stabbing in the dark,  I suspect it would be a prudent move not to replace Mr. Casuscelli directly, but to add THB to a handful of regional papers Mr. Bird will oversee. Saves that much more in employee overhead expense.  That's what I would do if I were trying to increase a newspaper's profitability in today's environment.

I imagine he'll have an office here, but the article did say, iirc, that he would continue his current duties as regional VP (can't remember the title off hand...)

I remember before Gannett sold Marion's paper, they shared a publisher with Muncie.