Breaking: Northeast News Managing Editor Michael Bushnell Fired By Email

Today Kansas City community news takes a serious hit with the departure of a legend in the local news game.

Allow us a brief bloggy aside . . .

THIS is why the non-profit news model doesn't work . . . Too many chefs and execs looking to mess with news coverage in order to control the narrative rather than just report it. 

We'll have more on this but for now we wanted to share comment from longtime Northeast News editor Michael Bushnell forwarded our way . . .

Something to know beforehand . . .

ALREADY THERE'S OUTRAGE AMONGST LONGTIME NORTHEAST NEWS READERS AND RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY OVER THIS POWER MOVE TO THE DETRIMENT OF LOCAL JOURNALISM!!!

We notice Mr. Bushnell is very politic and reasonable in his response and here's his insight into the sitch:

"The decision to depart so soon after the hiring of a new Managing Editor was not mine but the Board of Directors. Or, More specifically, the Board Chair of Historic Northeast Media -- who is also President and CEO of the Northeast Chamber of Commerce and the District Manager of the Independence Avenue CID.

"It would have been far more beneficial to the community and the news product to have a longer, and more in-depth on-boarding process for the new Managing Editor (industry standard is six months), but that conversation didn't happen and here we are.

"Rather than dwell on the negative and horribly flawed process that was used to get here (an email). I'll take with me the knowledge that for the last 26 years the team at The Northeast News provided award winning news coverage to the neighborhoods of Histrionic Northeast Kansas City."

An important reaction sent our way . . .

No one covered Northeast like Michael.

Over 100 media awards in 26 years.

1, 352 issues published.

No one person loved Northeast more.

The person who fired him doesn’t even live in Northeast.

This is a direct threat to the last unsullied pillar of democracy

Might as well just call it the Chamber Newsletter.

Again, we'll have more on this in the very near future.

Developing . . .