You won't read about it in the Joplin Globe, but CNHI Publishing, the newspaper's owner, fired publisher Dale Brendel earlier this week.
Brendel had been at the newspaper since October 2019, but the one thing he had not been doing recently was meeting revenue expectations and that cost him his job, multiple sources told the Turner Report.
Before he took the Joplin job, Brendel was familiar with this area. During his time as executive editor of the Leavenworth Times, GateHouse Media put Brendel in charge of regional content for 17 newspapers, including the Carthage Press, Neosho Daily News and Pittsburg Morning Sun.
Brendel has been with CNHI since leaving Leavenworth in 2013.
In the August 8, 2021 Globe, Brendel explained the role newspapers play in modern society.
Papers aren’t as large or dominant as they were in yesteryears before there were so many other forms of media, and many readers have shifted to reading the news on their phones or devices, but our print product is still our foundation and core. and certainly, fair and factual journalism is more important than ever, and is the primary mission of the Globe.
He neglected to mention that if you are going to fulfill that primary mission, you have to make money.
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