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For goodness sake don’t write about grits
Former Greensboro News & Record publisher/editor Jeff “Grits” Gauger got off on the wrong foot here in Gboro when he penned a column about the wonder of –you guessed it—-grits.…
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Grits Gauger gone. Shocking.
Greensboro News & Record Jeff “Grits” Gauger has resigned according to an internal Berkshire Hathaway email sent to staff employees. Gauger has been on the job since 2012. He got…
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Grits Gauger’s last word on Aycock Auditorium
Money quote from N&R editor and publisher Jeff ‘Grits’ Gauger’s last word on the UNCG board of trustees vote to remove the name of former Gov. Charles B. Aycock from its campus auditorium:…
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N&R layoffs
N&R lays off nine employees in the news, advertising and administration divisions “due to continuing softness in national advertising,” according to publisher Jeff “Grits” Gauger. Longtime N&R subscribers will note…
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WFMY: journalism for sale
While we were all focusing on the hotly contested and election, the Greensboro City Council (unfortunately) went about its business: The council voted to give WFMY News 2 $35,000 for…
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Senate race, sales tax hike, grits and baloney
What do they all have in common, you ask? A couple of weeks ago the Rhino’s John Hammer speculated that the mere presence of Guilford County’s quarter-cent sales tax hike…
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N&R pay wall
As only he can, N&R editor and publisher Jeff “Grits” Gauger makes it all sound so good: What’s new in this approach is that readers now will pay to view…
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Jeff Gauger’s world
Columbia Journalism Review* writes up the N&R’s pay to play deal with ArtsGreensboro. Editor and publisher Jeff “Grits” Gauger tells CJR: Part of the reason Gauger agreed is the subject…
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NYT fail
Sunday New York Times wasn’t on the sidewalk this morning. Search party (only because they had other errands to run) reported sold out at both Barnes & Noble and Harris…
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Grits Gauger says he’s sorry
N&R editor Jeff “Grits” Gauger says he’s sorry for his cornpone column: I’d intended for Vern to represent a universal hick: a mountain hillybilly in Washington state or eastern Ohio,…
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Grits Gauger bids Rhino adieu
In his Sunday column, N&R editor Jeff “Grits” Gauger says farewell to the Rhinoceros Times. While Gauger is kind to John Hammer –he writes that he stopped by Rhino headquarters…
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N&R rearranges the furniture
I was all excited to read about the changes down at the N&R. Top priority on editor Jeff “Grits” Gauger’s list: We rearranged the office furniture. Completely. Reporters sit where…