Posts Tagged ‘Fort Worth Star-Telegram’
Jen Floyd Engel No Longer Android
Jeff PrinceFort Worth Star-Telegram former sports columnist Jennifer Floyd Engel left the paper earlier this year to become a national sports columnist on the FOX Sports web site. Now every time she writes about the Dallas Cowboys she rec...
Newspapers Entice Readers With Cheap Tablets, Apps
Jeff PrinceFort Worth Weekly‘s story on the financial problems being felt at major daily newspapers (“The Incredible Shrinking Star-Telegram,” June 29, 2011) included a rosy prognosis at the end. After 4,000 words of doo...
Jen Floyd Engel Dodges Balls Of Hate
Jeff PrinceThe last we heard of Jennifer Floyd Engel — the Little Ball of Hate, as she was known as Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s longtime sports columnist — she’d left the paper in July without a word of farewell, no...
Dale Fout Movie Texting A Pain In Neck
Jeff PrinceThe most-read story for the past couple of days on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram online site is “Disagreement over texting at movie theater leads to assault charge.” And the star of the story, who has been dubbed a p...
FW Star-Telegram Is The Spin Doctor
Jeff PrinceMaybe it’s coincidence, or something more sinister. Or maybe I’m just full of myself. You be the judge. In May 2010, I wrote a story criticizing Guardianship Services in Tarrant County and the probate court run by J...
“Star-T”‘s Sad “Exclusive”
Jimmy FowlerHave you seen the “exclusive,” “one-on-one,” and “revealing” interview with Rick Perry featured on today’s Star-Telegram website? It’s a blog post written by former Star-T reporter Kevin Lyons; he now lives in A...
Former Reporter Recalls Michael Hall, Amy Robinson
Jeff PrinceBarring any last minute stay of execution, the state will kill Michael Hall tonight for his part in abducting, torturing, and murdering Amy Robinson, a mentally challenged teenager. The Robinson murder was a shocker in 1998 in ...
Price Is Right Story Reads Like Melody
Jeff PrinceTo fledgling writers currently traipsing the hallways in Tarrant County’s fine establishments of higher education: This is an excellent example of storytelling. Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer Melody McDonald takes a friv...
Former FW News Publisher Bows To Haters
Jeff PrinceFormer Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Fort Worth Business Press publisher Richard L. Connor teaches by example. If you want to learn how to be a good publisher/editor, look at what Connor did — and then do the opposite....
Van Cliburn National Anthem At Cowboys Stadium
Jeff PrinceVan Cliburn’s rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner is waxed upon in a rather uncharacteristic gushing manner by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy in today’s paper. I was going to post a YouTube video o...