SR To Modify Radio Experiment

In an e-mail to the SR newsroom this afternoon, Dan Mitchinson announced that the newspaper will end its in-house radio broadcasts. Mitchinson, director of SR radio operations, said that the newspaper will modify its arrangement with KJRB (with details about that to be announced in the coming weeks. However, the four-person radio team, including Dick Haugen (the former, long-time KVNI news director, pictured) and himself, won’t be part of the new arrangement. The radio staff’s last day of broadcast will be July 3. “What we did here received a lot of local … and national attention,” Mitchinson said. “And I know it will continue to evolve in one form or another. But I credit the quality of the newscasts to the reporters in this newsroom. Without your work … our job would have been a lot more difficult … and a lot less fun.”