![]() ![]() We had more information that we thought we needed to report. "I thought it was important that we continue to follow the story. Keays continued: "So I talked to the reporters and we agreed that we needed to do a story and I also talked to the editors and we challenged to each other about what a story would look like and we agreed to go ahead and do the story." I wish they would have trusted me and the staff to do that." - Alan Keays, former news editor at the Rutland Herald "I had to do the story, I just wish there was a way that the management would have trusted us to do it in a fair way and in a credible way. Reporters and staff in the newsroom were seeking answers at that time and did not get answers they thought were appropriate." "It kind of came to a head on Thursday when we usually get our paychecks and they did not arrive. "We were talking about doing a story for a period of time," said Alan Keays, the longtime news editor at the Herald. reported some newsroom staffers received checks that had bounced or didn’t clear their banks in their usual timely manner, and also that some freelancers had gone for a period of time without getting paid and were not getting paid in the usual way. ![]() The Rutland Herald is dealing with fallout from a story that called its own financial status into question. Not long after the Herald ran a story that staffers and freelancers hadn’t been getting paid, the newspaper’s publisher, John Mitchell, fired news editor Alan Keays.Īlan Keays spoke with VPR about his firing and the unfolding situation at the Rutland Herald. ![]()
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