Scene From A Mall

By Kleinheider Posted on August 18, 2008 at 6:07 am

Rex Noseworthy reports that the departure of Matt Pulle is not the only change readers of Nashville’s alt-weekly will notice in the coming weeks and months:

Sources close to the Scene say the publication is planning on axing popular columnists The Fabricator and Walter Jowers. Other changes are said to be in the works that will strip away the last vestiges of the alt weekly’s homegrown take on alternative journalism. Instead, the weekly is preparing to follow the more traditional alt-weekly path mapped out by corporate owners Village Voice Media (VVM).

Pulle leaving is the latest in a series of departures from the editorial staff, including former Editor Liz Garrigan, Elizabeth Ulrich and Sarah Kelly. The publication just underwent a great deal of rather public angst among staff members when VVM brought in new editor Pete Kotz from a property it shut down for financial reasons in Cleveland, Ohio. In the process, Pulle was passed over for the job. That drama was played out publicly when the outgoing Garrigan stated her displeasure in print.

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