05/04/07 - Joe Pisani, Editor Of Greenwich Time, Has Been Fired By The Paper's New Owner

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"To say I was shocked and dismayed to learn Joe Pisani was departing from his position as editor of my two favorite newspapers is an understatement.", said Bernie Yudain, a former Greenwich Time managing editor who still writes a column for the newspaper.

"I can't imagine Greenwich Time without Joe P running the show.", said former Republican First Selectman John Margenot

Headline:

New Publishers Recognized That The Money And Subscriber Losing Greenwich Time Has Been Faking It For Years.

It's Now Time For Greenwich Time Reporters And Editors To Push It Up A Notch Or Two If They Want To Survive.

Story:

Pisani out as editor

Joseph F. Pisani, who ushered Greenwich Time and The Advocate into the digital age while wearing bow ties and surrounding himself with vintage typewriters, has left as editor of the newspapers

A replacement has not been named, and Pisani declined to comment for this story....

...Tribune Co.'s sale of the newspapers six months ago immediately resulted in the departure of several editorial department heads, including Greenwich Time Managing Editor Bruce Hunter, Editorial Page Editor Joy Haenlein, Features and Food Editor Valerie Foster and Advocate Sports Editor Bob Kennedy. The editorial staff in the two newsrooms has decreased from nearly 90 to the mid-60s...

...On his way to The Advocate to clean out his office Friday, Pisani continued to practice his craft. At St. John's church on Atlantic Street, he learned possible vandals had toppled a statue of the Virgin Mary overnight.

He was off the job, but for one last time, he summoned his staff to cover the news.

"Let's get a story on that and bring it out," he said

Comment:

Joe Pasanni was a nice guy who was liked by insiders and politician, because he didn't ever rock the boat in Greenwich.

The Greenwich Time will be forever stained by how it handled cases where children have been murdered in Greenwich.

For example, The Greenwich Time did a poor job of covering the Martha Moxley Murder on on October. 30, 1975.

In the early eighties the Greenwich Time attempted to revive it's poor image in the early 1980s by hiring investigative journalist Len Levitt to look into the unsolved murder case. Levitt's story, based on more than 100 interviews and 400 pages of police documents turned over on the order of the state's Freedom of Information Commission, remained unpublished for nearly a decade.

The story was finally published over several pages in 1991.

When Levitt appeared in an Editor & Publisher cover story bashing the newspapers for the long delay in publishing his work, Pisani refused to talk to him.

Please Look At How The Current Greenwich Time Has Displyed A Grave Indifference To Death of John J. Bria.

Have Seen Any Greenwich Time Editorials Criticizing How This Three Year Old Murder Is Being Investigated?

• 01/04/08 - Greenwich Police Officers Sit On The Post Road Looking For Burned Out Tailights In Hopes Of Making A Drug Arrest
• 02/03/08 - The Stamford Police Know How To Properly Investigate A Drug Death
• 02/04/08 - Savannah Lamotte, would tell police about John J. Bria's Death: "Maria and Jason picked me up around 9 p.m. …
• 02/06/08 - Dr. Ian Rubin's Family Has Complained About The Press, But At Least The Family Got Justice.
• 02/13/07 Finally: Greenwich Cops Reopen Bria Drug Death Case

Have Seen A Greenwich Time Editorial Complaining That No One Has Been Arrestted In The Year Old Drug Death Of....

Kyle Lendenmann?

Where is the Exhuastive Greenwich Time Investigative Report On .....

Matthew Margolies
"Greenwich's other Unsolved Murder."

Please See....
http://www.matthewmargolies.com/

Just The Other Day The Greenwich Time Didn't Even Get The Current Big Murder Case Up On Their Website....

05/01/08 - Greenwich Time MIA On Kissel Murder Mystery - There Is Nothing On The Web

Joe Pisani was a very nice Grandfatherly man, but his management of the Grenwich Time was nothing to write home about.

It's a shame that Mr. Pisani did not help hold the the officials in the Town Greenwich more accountable to the public.

If The Greenwich Time Was More Willing To Go After Incompetence In The Greenwich Public Schools And In Town Government, Then More Residents Would Start Reading Their Paper.

Disgusted Town Employees Say That The School Changed Molded Ceiling Tiles Over A Year Ago In The Contaminated Modular Classrooms, But The Greenwich Time Is Afraid To Go After The Story

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