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Free Press Lets Go Of Its Wang

By Kleinheider Posted on March 24, 2009 at 11:56 pm

Bad news in the Tennessee media world today as Post Politics has learned that workhorse Washington, DC correspondent Herman Wang has been let go today from the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

A graduate of both Northwestern’s undergraduate environmental science program as well as the Medill School of Journalism, Wang covered county government in Jacksonville, North Carolina for the Daily News and city government for the Times Free Press before taking the assignment covering Tennessee and Georgia’s representatives in the nation’s capital.

Apart from his journalism, Wang is probably best known as the reporter who surreptitiously emailed Sen. Alexander’s then press secretary Lee Pitts while restrained in the middle of an apparent home invasion robbery prompting the Alexander aide to have police dispatched to his DC residence.

UPDATE: Joe Lance reports that four Free Pressers in total were given the sack. The paper’s tweeter says that an explanation is forthcoming.

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9 Responses to “Free Press Lets Go Of Its Wang”

  1. Sandy writes
    March 25th, 2009 7:12 am

    Should have fired Steve Barnett and Lee Anderson before Herman Wang. Both of those hacks need to retire from journalism.

  2. Low Hanging Fruit writes
    March 25th, 2009 7:30 am

    I hope one day I climb so high in my chosen field that, when I’m eventually fired, it too can be announced to the world on a local blog in the form of a penis joke.

  3. David Morton writes
    March 25th, 2009 8:23 am

    This is a really, really unfortunate turn of events. Herman is a damn good reporter, and did a great job of covering the Hill for local readers. I imagine that the paper plans to outsource more of its national reporting to news wires now? Too bad.

  4. Dru writes
    March 25th, 2009 8:37 am

    The Times Free-Press now has no Washington bureau? Editor Tom Griscom should know better since he worked in the White House with Howard Baker. I thought the reputedly solvent Arkansas Democrat owned TFP.

  5. Adrienne writes
    March 25th, 2009 9:00 am

    This is disappointing. Herman is a good reporter. The TFP seems to be in better shape than most papers in the country, and I’ve heard that subscriptions are up. In light of all the media cuts around the country, I was wondering how long they’d keep the DC correspondent. I hope Herman lands on his feet quickly. He’s a talented writer.

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  9. Oliver Chhin writes
    March 31st, 2009 9:33 am

    Good games to enjoy it…..!!!

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