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The Newy Factor

How does someone who calls himself "Newdawg" compete with Dale Hansen? By not being Dale Hansen.

By Eric Celeste
Dec 23, 2004

Newy Scruggs and Dale Hansen are both big guys, in suit size and local ratings. They're both sports anchors. And that's where the similarities end. For there are many ways Scruggs, Channel 5's sports director, is different from the longtime Dallas-area ratings champion, Channel 8 sports director Hansen. They are...
Whiz Biz Kids

Dallas' young entrepreneurs live by their creed: Just do it.

By Eric Celeste
Dec 2, 2004

Calvin Carter was a success story, no doubt about it. He'd started his Web development company in his room in the early '90s at Southern Methodist University and grown it to 55 employees. The quiet kid from Florida who liked solitary pursuits (he missed the ocean, deep-sea fishing, sand) had...
At the Ripping Point

Dallas' only daily finds itself losing a war for readers' eyeballs and the heart of its staff

By Eric Celeste
Nov 18, 2004

The maintenance workers were pulling down photographs from the wall when a Dallas Morning News staffer stopped to watch. Piled on the floor were several frames, each housing a picture of a DMN employee who'd worked there 25 years or more and had just been laid off. "Tell you what,"...
Bark's Bite

The DMN should lose the muzzle it has on TV critic Ed Bark

By Eric Celeste
Nov 18, 2004

We're not used to playing Good Cop here at Buzz Central. Not that we're normally into the Bad Cop role, either. Given our lifestyle/bedroom habits, we're not keen on playing any sort of law enforcement figure, lest we freak out and turn ourselves in for immoral Blue State behavior. But...
Desperate Housecleaning

The DMN slashes and burns

By Eric Celeste
Oct 28, 2004

Buzz is channeling Blackie Sherrod this week, feeling like we should do a little scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to The Arlington Morning News... Staying with The Dallas Morning News theme, Buzz is hearing that the round of layoffs scheduled for this week is only one of the huge changes...

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