Worst PR move by a newspaper since the New York Times hired Bono as a columnist, via Romenesko:
The Suburban Journals, sister paper to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, last week laid off the reporter who took a bullet in the hand during the infamous February 7, 2008, Kirkwood City Council shootings.
Todd Smith, 37, and a Journals reporter since September 2006, was the only person injured in the shootings to survive. He said the newspaper laid him off last Wednesday for budgetary reasons.
When I was a newspaper editor, I always felt pretty rotten if I had to let somebody good go. But a guy who got shot on the job? Awful!