Looks like things may be rough already over at the Dallas-Fort Worth Tribune, a new online newspaper we told you about awhile back. A couple of people acquainted with the operation say its founder, Scott Reddick, has declined to pay the paper’s employees, some of whom have walked off the job. A few are fixing to take their complaints to the state, these folks say, and one’s talking about suing Reddick in small-claims court. Reddick, for his part, tells a different story.
Matt, a web consultant who says he’s owed $1,000 for two weeks of work on the Tribune, says he reacted to the situation by inserting a headline on the paper’s front page proclaiming, “DFW Tribune Doesn’t Pay Its Bills.” But the web site was quickly taken down, and the Trib‘s “real” front page–consisting mainly of AP copy–was eventually restored.
Reddick says there has been some difficulty with the paper’s line of credit. But that’s now been resolved, he says, and the employees should be taken care of within the next few days. He adds that nobody’s walked out, “to the best of [his] knowledge,” and that he’s talking with the Tarrant County DA’s office about the possibility of “pressing charges” against one individual. (Wonder if the individual’s first name starts with an M.)
Talk about making the news, rather than reporting it.
