Ex-Portland Press Herald Editor Unleashes On New Ownership’s ‘Lack Of Watchdog Journalism’

Ex-Portland Press Herald Editor Unleashes On New Ownership’s ‘Lack Of Watchdog Journalism’

A former longtime top editor of Maine’s largest legacy newspaper is blasting its latest iteration as an “embarrassment.” Cliff Schechtman, who oversaw the Portland Press Herald newsroom from 2012 to 2021, is quoted in a Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism analysis of the paper’s new “nonprofit” ownership. “I’m simply embarrassed by what the Press [...] The post Ex-Portland Press Herald Editor Unleashes On New Ownership’s ‘Lack Of…