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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Free Press Lets Go Of Its Wang

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